Where can I learn more about these 5 waves?
Where can I learn more about these 5 waves?
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ancient_History/Human_Evolutio...
Reading through
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations
top to bottom will give a good enough first overview and an idea of where uncertainly lies and references to chase for further debate.
Eg: Currently there's some hot debate on whether parts of the "coastal migration" to Australasia took place over inland routes within South East Asia - that's a matter of old coast lines at the time, inland cave shelters with datable bones, and a sparse game of chronological joind the estimated dots in space and time - it gets technical.
You simply go back 2 million years and verify it yourself.
Alternatively, read it on wikipedia.