Scientists Keep Finding Humans Where They Shouldn’t Be

The show is now on Spotify! Loads of you said you prefer listening to my vids in the background - so I’ve just launched the show on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYM... I’ll be uploading some of my best older videos first, then everything will go up there alongside YouTube. If you want to support the channel, following the show and leaving a rating makes a huge difference! Thanks for everything ❤️ For decades, human evolution was explained with a simple story. Modern humans evolved in Africa… then left once and populated the world. But the deeper scientists dig into the fossil record, genetics, and ancient DNA, the messier that story becomes. Earlier migrations. Unknown human species. Back-migration into Africa. Interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans. And evidence that humanity may never have had a single clean origin point at all... For more videos, subscribe to my second channel here:    / @michaelbuttonhistory1   I share the deeper ideas I can’t fully explore on YouTube in my private email briefing. You can join for free here: 👇 https://michael-button.kit.com/signup Join me for a chat in my Discord server! 👉   / discord   Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X:   / michaelbuttonx   Follow me on Instagram:   / michaelbuttonx   Big thank you to our Top Tier Supporters! Matthew JRayZimmer Sources: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aust... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-h... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... https://idw-online.de/en/news866974 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... https://www.sciencealert.com/new-dati... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi... https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... https://www.livescience.com/archaeolo... https://www.sciencenews.org/article/s... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-we... https://www.sciencealert.com/neandert... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/deniso... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-f... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-l... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-n... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbr... If you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing to my channel!