article_snippet.sent: Rather than lightening as early humans migrated north from Africa  around 40,000 years ago due to lower levels of sunlight, these first Homo sapiens retained these first Homo
article_snippet.sent: New research suggests Caucasians were a recent addition to the area, arriving on the continent 8,000 years ago .
article_snippet.sent: The research, which was presented at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, shows that populations in Europe were still evolving until relatively recently.
article_snippet.sent: Our find a surprise in seven Scandinavian hunter-gatherers from the Motala site in southern Sweden who lived around 7,700 years before present. '
article_snippet.sent: Studies suggest that Europe was first reshaped during the Neolithic Revolution 8,500 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Farmers at this time travelled north, bringing new technology and language into Europe. 
article_snippet.sent: Pictured is an early Neolithic 35-40 year old male from, Czech Republic, who was part of the first mass migration to Europe .
article_snippet.sent: Previous research has identified a mass migration of Kurgan populations (Yamna culture) which went from the Russian steppes to the centre of Europe 4,500 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Previously, researchers had believed Previous research spread 8,500 years ago, when the first farmers from the Near East, now modern day Turkey, brought Previous research to Europe .
article_snippet.sent: The study also showed that around around 4,800 years ago a group of herders known as the Yamnaya migrated from the stepps between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, carried with herders known as the Yamnaya migrated from the stepps between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea genes for tallness to northern and central Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Archaeologists had thought that Europe showed a relatively simple succession from hunter-gatherers in the Mesolithic to early farmers in the Neolithic, with the basic assumption that the arrival of farming significantly altered the biology of those first farmers, after which they gradually developed into the Europeans of today. '
article_snippet.sent: Ongoing selection, for poorly understood reasons, seems to have maintained large stature in northern Europe after the arrival of farming, while progressively reducing the arrival of farming in southern Europe, especially Iberia.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The original migrants to Europe from Africa arrived 40,000 years ago .
  