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Originally Posted by JManc
You both are right...at least according to Wikipedia. There was a wave 270,000 years ago but they largely died out and/or returned and it wasn't until the second wave 70,000 years ago humans began to successfully populate the world. Modern humans at least; H. neanderthalensis and H. erectus left earlier...
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Modern humans are actually a subspecies of homo sapiens. We are homo sapiens sapiens. All of the other homo sapiens groups died out or were overtaken by our subspecies through competition. All of the people alive today descended from a group of homo sapiens that first started to migrate out of Africa about 70,000 years ago.