Did Neanderthals emigrate out of Africa before modern humans?

The other, out-of-Africa theory, held that modern humans evolved in Africa for many thousands of years before they spread throughout the rest of the world. In the 1980s, new tools completely changed the kinds of questions that scientists could answer about the past. read more

Modern humans leaving Africa encountered the Neanderthal in the Mid East and interbred with them. This Neanderthal Hybrid then migrated all over Eurasia and that is why all Eurasians carry Neanderthal DNA. read more

Like other humans, Neanderthals originated in Africa but migrated to Eurasia long before other humans did. Neanderthals lived across Eurasia, as far north and west as the Britain, through part of the Middle East, to Uzbekistan. read more

Humans and Neanderthals originated from ancestors that arose in Africa (Neanderthals themselves did not come out of Africa. Their shared common ancestor with us, Homo heidelbergensis, migrated out of Africa, and the population that went to Europe evolved into Neanderthals in Europe), but after our lineages split we each experienced our own unique selection factors and mutations and evolved uniquely from that point on. read more