[shuckmaster]

Presuming the early news on the China find is correct, the time frame now reads:

180kya South Africa
130kya Ethiopia
110kya Israel
100kya China
60kya Australia
50kya Europe

Clearly a coastal species that eventually followed rivers inland much later.

[JimSEA]

That would follow is ideas presented by Openheimer in “The Real Eve”. However the Toba eruption would have moderns east of the line of volcanic devastation 75,000 + years ago. 100k years for China seems a real stretch though??

[PapaBear3625]

Clearly a coastal species that eventually followed rivers inland much later.

Which fits with the "aquatic ape" hypothesis, that the earliest humans spent a lot of time in the water and had a lot of fish in their diet