Out of Africa I : The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology)

For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, we hominins were restricted to Africa. What do we know about the adaptations of the hominins that dispersed - their diet, locomotor abilities, cultural abilities? Was the hominin dispersal part of a broader faunal expansion of African mammals northward?