spread of the human species from Africa through the world
Successive dispersals of Homo erectus greatest extent (yellow), Homo neanderthalensis greatest extent (ochre) Homo sapiens (red), with the numbers of years since they are first recorded before present.
Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents. They are believed to have begun approximately 2 million years ago with the early expansions out of Africa by Homo erectus. This initial migration was followed by other archaic humans including H. heidelbergensis, which lived around 500,000 years ago and was the likely ancestor of Denisovans and Neanderthals as well as modern humans. Early hominids had likely crossed land bridges that have now sunk.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).