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Thousands of years ago, humans migrated out of Africa. Yet exactly where they migrated to first and what paths they used has long remained speculation. Now, scientists are hunting down the exact routes of this ancient, human migration, allowing us to learn a little bit more about our past ancestors
About 60,000 years ago, humans began to disperse across the world. While current human mitochondrial phylogeny represents those originally from north and central Europe, though, it fails to take into account other human populations. That's why researchers decided to take a closer look at human migration, learning a bit more about human populations.
In order to better understand human origins, researchers decided to use DNA evidence. They compared data from modern samples across the world to ancient bones and samples that they've been able to find. These ancient samples included fossilized teeth and bones.
"It's like forensics but even more so," said Martin Richards, a professor at the University of Huddersfield and one of the researcher....
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by SLAYER69
Always good stuff Slayer
In Slayer's link there is this link - don't miss it
A tad technical but it has some interesting info on human movements in Iberia and elsewhere
We all migrated from Africa. They can trace DNA from most non Negroids to a similar family group. That family group was Negroid based...in Africa.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by rickymouse
You must be from Upper Michigan?
Just a guess
Originally posted by anonentity
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by SLAYER69
Always good stuff Slayer
In Slayer's link there is this link - don't miss it
A tad technical but it has some interesting info on human movements in Iberia and elsewhere
This another interesting read, the genetics chapter is interesting. www.polynesian-prehistory.com...-
These experts tell us, yes we had similar relatives to apes and monkeys in Africa, so thats where man came from.
Really? No one has Ever explained, why there are monkeys in Asia, Where did the Orangatan, with no relative in Africa, come from? Why is it that the huge Gigantopithecus has ONLY been found in China and East Asia.
Who was his relative? What did he "evolve"? into.....presumably died out..Like how many Homo species??
Gigantopithecus lived between 300,000 to a million years ago, and was, as its name suggests, a giant, the largest apes ever known, with males of the largest known species weighing as much as 540kg, twice as much as a male gorilla (Morris, 2008). Gigantopithecus was thought to feed chiefly on plants, and live terrestrially, walking on all four limbs, like a gorilla (Morris, 2008; Galdikas, 1999). Why Gigantophithecus died out is unknown, but it is possible it was hunted to extinction by early man (Galdikas, 1999; Morris, 2008) ...
...Fossil evidence of ancestral gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobo’s is sparse, due to the acidity of rainforest soil, which tends to dissolve, rather than fossilize, bones, but fossils of early humans found in open savannahs, and genetic mapping of the human and non-human ape genome, have given a clearer picture of how the other great apes evolved.
Originally posted by br0ker
reply to post by SLAYER69
Article is wrong.... Do more research..