Early humans 'followed coast'

BBC ^ | 5/14/05

[Wormwood]

I remain amazed at the sheer bravery of the first human to look at a lobster and think, "I wonder what that tastes like?"

I salute you, sir!

[SunkenCiv]

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[FastCoyote]

"So 'splain to me how these guys "know" us humans came out of Africa?"

You can do it by the genetic distance between races. A great example is the Y chromosome haplotypes. It branches like a tree and the further the geographical distance from Africa, the greater the branching. Google Y Chromosome haplotype

[tomzz]

The first humans who left Africa to populate the world headed south along the coast of the Indian Ocean, Science magazine reports.

They (the SciMag weenies) were there, I take it?

[wildbill]

Well, of course, they followed the coast! The surfing was good and all the places where they could get drinks with little umbrellas in them were along the coast!"

Man, you forgot the best part. The ladies all wore thongs to the beach if they wore anything at all.

Grab yourself a coconut and life was good and the living was easy.

[SunkenCiv]

Dr Martin Richards of the University of Leeds, who took part in the study, says the first humans may have moved south in search of better fishing grounds when stocks in the Red Sea dwindled due to climate change.

Yeah, that was it. :') This is an older topic, but it was only driven to work and back.

[SunkenCiv]

:') This is a 2005 topic that I gave a little bump to.

[Mike Darancette]

When the first modern humans evolved in Africa, they lived mainly on meat hunted from animals. But by 70,000 years ago, they had switched to a marine diet, largely shellfish.

Harder to get more bang per pound than by eating shellfish. What did they do in months that do not end in "R".

[wyattearp]

They also have an interactive map on their site which is interesting and shows the common theory of ancient humans migrating to Europe and parts of Asia, then Siberia to North America, etc.

Here's another one. Haven't seen it posted in a while. It's pretty cool.

(Journey of Mankind)

[wyattearp]

Beat me to it!

[PistolPaknMama]

Good heavens this is an old thread! Will check out your post later, late for a date. Thanks for the post!

[wyattearp]

Wow. I just saw the 5/2005 date. How in the world did I wind up here?

[colorado tanker]

ping

[colorado tanker]

So, basically they were looking for Australian Rock Lobster?

Good eatin', that's fer shure.

[U S Army EOD]

Walking along the coast and beach would be easier that walking over mountains and through forest unless you came to a river. But once you walked up and got across the river you just start walking down the beach again.

[Prost1]

The 1st sentence is in error. There is no proof humans originated in Africa and thus the "when the 1st humans left Africa..." is a false assumption.

The writer takes the assumption as fact. Therefore, ignore everything else!