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:The article ''[[Early human migrations]]'' will get you started on this question, and you may find further relevant details by following links from it. You will also find a useful table of the different known Human/''Homo'' species in the ''[[Homo]]'' article, and further details towards the end of [[Timeline of human evolution]].
:Briefly, when the only (known) now-surviving human subspecies ''[[Homo sapiens sapiens]]'' first spread beyond Africa (though many stayed there), there were likely still some closely related sub-species in Africa such as ''[[Homo sapiens idaltu]]'', perhaps also some of the last ''[[Homo heidelbergensis]]'' whose earlier emigrants to Europe had evolved into Neanderthals, and possibly some surviving ''[[Homo ergaster]]'' (aka "African ''erectus''") from
:Beyond Africa there were already: the species/subspecies ''[[Homo neanderthalensis]]/Homo sapiens neanderthalensis'' in the Levant and Europe (with whom ''H sapiens sapiens'' then interbred); ''[[Homo denisovan]]'' (or ''H sapiens denisovan''?) in parts of Eurasia, (with whom some ''H sapiens sapiens'' also interbred); ''[[Homo erectus]]'' throughout Eurasia, Indonesia and possibly parts of Australasia (with whom ''H s s'' probably did ''not'' interbreed, but whom we replaced), and ''[[Homo floresiensis]]'' in Flores and perhaps elsewhere.
:There may well have been other localised ''Homo'' species and subspecies that we have not yet discovered. Several of the above-mentioned varieties of humans are known only from very few fossils, so future finds may well extend their currently confirmed time spans nearer to the present day. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} [[Special:Contributions/90.197.66.165|90.197.66.165]] ([[User talk:90.197.66.165|talk]]) 01:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
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