The Persian plateau first Sapiens hub outside Africa - Biotech. The Persian plateau was the first gathering point of the Homo sapiens populations that left Africa 60 thousand years ago.
About 20 thousand years later it became the hub from which they left to colonize Eurasia, Oceania and the Americas. "This stage of the human journey out of Africa is fascinating: it is during this period that we mixed our genes with those of Neanderthals," says Luca Pagani of the University of Padua.