ancient lineage - working hard or hardly working?

While our species seems to be about 150K years old, our genus stretches back ~2.4 million years and our subtribus to more than 4.4 Mya.
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paleohistory dept.: aegypten, muter der welt.

(update to earlier blog post "مصر أم الدنيا" (Egypt, mother of the world), 26-27.ix.mmvii)
(update to earlier tumblr post egypt-populated-between-130-and-50-thousand-yrs)
Egypt was populated between 130 and 50 thousand yrs ago, possible origin or way point (one of a half dozen possible ones) of Chinese, European and Japanese colonizations between 60 and 35/25 thousand years ago.


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This detail of an incomplete graph (to be updated sometime maybe) shows
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