REVEALED: How wobble in the Earth's axis 130,000 years ago allowed early humans to leave the 'Garden Of Eden' in Botswana where ALL our ancestors could have originated
All modern humans may have descended from people in what is now Botswana, according to scientists.
Researchers think they have, for the first time, discovered the 'cradle of humanity' where the first modern humans evolved before spreading across the globe.
They are believed to have flourished in the prehistoric Makgadikgadi–Okavango wetland, just to the south of the Zambezi River.
A study of DNA records and migration patterns has proven, scientists say, that the genetic root of all modern humans comes from that region 200,000 years ago.
The wetland was a warm, lush green Garden of Eden in which early humans thrived before migrating when a wobble in the earth's axis 130,000 years ago caused the climate to turn dry.
And direct descendants of these pioneers can still be found living in the arid Kalahari desert today.
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