New evidence that humans migrated to Asia long before Europe. Damn Neanderthals!

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Evidence of earliest modern humans outside Africa found in China

A trove of 47 fossil human teeth from a cave in southern China is rewriting the history of the early migration of our species out of Africa, indicating Homo sapiens trekked into Asia far earlier than previously known and much earlier than into Europe.

Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of teeth between 80,000 and 120,000 years old that they say provide the earliest evidence of fully modern humans outside Africa.

The teeth from the Fuyan Cave site in Hunan Province's Daoxian County place our species in southern China 30,000 to 70,000 years earlier than in the eastern Mediterranean or Europe.

Neanderthals may have been barrier in Europe

Martinon-Torres said some migrations out of Africa have been labeled "failed dispersals." Fossils from Israeli caves indicate modern humans about 90,000 years ago reached "the gates of Europe," Martinon-Torres said, but "never managed to enter." It may have been hard to take over land Neanderthals had occupied for hundreds of thousands of years, Martinon-Torres said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/teeth-ancient-humans-1.3270855

I must not pay much attention to early human migration. I thought that we migrated to Europe and Asia at about the same time even though though there were Neanderthals already living in Europe. That cold European weather and the tougher-than-expected Neanderthals must have been a significant barrier.