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Published online 12 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050509-10
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Early African migrants made eastward exit
Travellers hugged the coast as they wandered the world.
The first modern humans to emigrate from Africa may have done so by sticking to the coast.
Analysis of surviving aboriginal populations in Southeast Asia suggest that they arose from a single wave of migrants who left the Horn of Africa more than 65,000 years ago.
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