Somewhere in Africa circa 70-50,000 years ago, a band of early modern humans (Homo sapiens) wanders far and wide in search of new foraging grounds. Their travels might even take them outside the continent, therefore announcing the species’s colonization of the rest of the habitable world.
Although there is evidence of shorter-lived dispersals out of Africa by Homo sapiens before 100,000 years ago, it is the one that took place between 70 and 50 kya to which everyone living outside of Africa today can trace the majority of their ancestry.