[expat_panama]

I never liked the logic of the Out of Africa crowd.

What most diggers are finding is that thems that looked like people had already spread out a very long time ago.  Since an awful lot can happen in a million years, one guy can say we came out of Africa, and another can say we came up all over, and both be right.  It depends on what you call 'people'.

[blam]

That map is a little out of date. We have 13,000 year old 'Arlington Springs Woman' in California, 16,000 year old artifacts at the Meadowcroft and Topper sites and 15-35,000 year old artifacts at the Monte Verde site.

[jennyp]

Guys, this has nothing to do with the Out of Africa theory of the origins of Homo 1 or 2 million years ago. This has to do with the much earlier origin (several dozen million years ago) of the wider Primate group, to which humans, tarsiers, & everything in between belong.