The Spread of Humanity
You can find a really cool website here that shows the spread of humanity, from it’s origins in Africa 160,000 years ago, through multiple ice ages and vulcanic catastrophes, right up to the spread of humans to every corned of the globe.
Well, that is of course, you’re one of those intellectual wonders who believes it all started 6,500 years ago with Dinosaurs on a wooden boat.
Aaron — On 6-5-2007 at 12:40 am
Awesome website.
restless — On 6-5-2007 at 1:38 pm
Check out Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel, a masterpiece on this subject. Especially remarkable to me is the recent advances in linguistic evolutionary study, which traces the evolution and migration of different peoples around the world. It is a surprisingly exact science. Professor Diamond filmed a 3-part National Geographic series on his book available on DVD. And for more, The Paleolithic Diet has a large section devoted to humankind just before and just after the advent of agriculture. A fascinating side topic found in this book is the description of the evolution of some wolves into dogs, due to their affinity and in some ways similarity to man. They truly are or where man’s best friend.