Proposed scenario: exit from Africa pre-L3 about 125,000 years ago via the northern route (Levant), evolution to basal L3 in Asia, then return to Africa about 70,000 years ago and further expansion of the M and N lineages in Asia. The article proposes a revision of the classic "Out of Africa" model - from a single direction of migration to a multi-stage model, with early exits and partial returns, and a greater importance of Central Asia as a center of dispersal.