The southern route dispersal is primarily linked to the
Initial Upper Paleolithic expansion of modern humans and "ascribed to a population movement with uniform genetic features and material culture" (
Ancient East Eurasians), which was the major source for the peopling of the
Asia–Pacific region. While certain Initial Upper Paleolithic populations represented by specimens found in
Central Asia and
Europe, such as the
Ust'-Ishim man,
Bacho Kiro cave or
Oase 2, are inferred to have used inland routes, the ancestors of all modern East Eurasian populations are inferred to have used the Southern dispersal route through
South Asia, where they subsequently diverged rapidly and gave rise to modern populations in Eastern Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas. ==See also==