{"id":227685,"date":"2025-12-23T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/two-ancient-human-species-came-out-of-africa-together-not-one-suggests-new-study"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:30:00","slug":"two-ancient-human-species-came-out-of-africa-together-not-one-suggests-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/two-ancient-human-species-came-out-of-africa-together-not-one-suggests-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, suggests new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-ancient-human-species-came-out-of-africa-together-not-one-suggests-new-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The textbook version of the \u201cOut of Africa\u201d hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has emerged suggesting it wasn\u2019t a single species, but several. New research published in the journal <i>PLOS One<\/i> now hopes to settle the matter once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The textbook version of the \u201cOut of Africa\u201d hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has emerged suggesting it wasn\u2019t a single species, but several. New research published in the journal PLOS One now hopes to settle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}