[blam]

This is not a new idea. This is called the 'Coastal Route.' I'll post and excellent map that shows this as soon as I can find it.

[mlc9852]

"The international project shows - contrary to previous thinking - that early modern humans spread across the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa, along the tropical coast of the Indian Ocean towards the Pacific in just a few thousand years."

Wow - traffic must have been REALLY bad back then!

[Dog Gone]

However, climate change seems likely to have reduced the Red Sea's shellfish stocks, driving them to seek better fishing grounds.

Caused by the introduction of the first SUV, no doubt.

[Redcloak]

The idea of coastal travel routes is also becoming the best explanation for human colonization of the New World ~14,000 years ago. It gives the Paleoindians a way around the ice sheets and a way to very quickly reach the tip of South America. It also conveniently explains traces of non-Indian peoples existing in the New World prior to that time. (If one group could skim the coasts or the edge of the pack ice, why couldn't others do it as well?)

[ProudVet77]

Interestingly Europeans had come to America and established "fishing colonies" almost 100 years before the Pilgrims. Most were off the coast of maine, and they fished the same waters we do today, the Grand Banks.

[DallasMike]

A French genetics study comparing strains of leprosy-causing bacteria indicate that the disease may have begun in East Africa, not India as previously thought, and then spread to the other continents through European colonialism and the slave trade.

Slavery was rampant throughout the entire middle east 3,000 years ago. How did European colonialism spread it to there from East Africa?

[Age of Reason]

Even then people preferred to live on the coast.

We must end immigration because America is out of room.

America has only so much good coastal real estate, and there is not enough to go around as it is.

[mmercier]

I read years ago about the "aquatic ape theory". Basically human physiology dictates that at some point in our evolution we lived in the sea for an extended period. Some "aquatic hominid's" eventually left the sea and became homo sapien, others who stayed in the seas became the live bearing sea mammals. This subject is like global warming, maybe a hoax, but nevertheless, unprovable.

Whether or not one accepts evolution or creationism, it is interesting.

[Age of Reason]

The lure of a seafood diet may explain why the first people left Africa

People left Africa because it was overpopulated.

They either had to fight others for place or flee.

Some chose to flee--or fought and lost, and then fled.

[Junior]

Hell, I've been known to travel great distances in search of seafood.

[Viking2002]

Mmmmm. Seafood causes me to migrate to it's source every time my wallet permits it. *CHOMP* :-)

[wagglebee]

[nothingnew]

I'd walk a mile for a lobster with sidedishes of sea-bass and shrimp!

FMCDH(BITS)

[citizencon]

The liberals are direct descendants of what migratory wave?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Doesn't the popular theory of evolution hold that we evolved in water from single cell organisms, then (eventually) into fish and then onto land? Why leave the water if all we really needed was a fine piece o' bass?

[Psycho_Bunny]

However, climate change seems likely to have reduced the Red Sea's shellfish stocks, driving them to seek better fishing grounds.

I have a more plausible theory: youthful searching and the desire some people have to explore.  We all know people like that.  Hell, my brother and dad are like that.

 

[Mike Darancette]

Mankind migrated from one Red Lobster to the next.

[righttackle44]

The bravest guy who ever lived was the first guy to eat an oyster.

[Nachoman]

I wonder how far they would have walked for cheesecake?

[4mycountry]

Sounds kinda fishy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Shell seems like a Sound idea.

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