Wellfleet Press

Humans are the last remaining hominin species and the only member of the genus Homo to have colonized the entire planet.

Based on fossil and genetic evidence, we can trace our direct ancestry back to East Africa around 200,000 years ago.

We began to move beyond our African homeland some time after 100,000 years ago and interbred several times with Neanderthals in Asia and Europe, and the Denisovans in Siberia.