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Out of Africa

Noun

Meaning

Out of Africa

(attributive) A model of the geographic origin and early migration of hominins (Out of Africa I) and modern humans (Homo sapiens) (Out of Africa II) that posits ancient dispersal across the globe from an origin in southern Africa.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

There is always something new out of Africa. Pliny the Elder

If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she'd said, "we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much. Jack McDevitt

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. Alexandra Fuller

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse. The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse. Duke Ellington

'I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills' are the opening words from Out of Africa, full of yearning. Source: Internet

Out of Africa -- china. Source: Internet

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