[Marysecretary]

I saw an extremely interesting documentary last week, probably on National Geographic, about a man who has been tracing mankind back to Africa. It seems he feels we are all African and these Africans traveled to different parts of the world to become different ethnic groups. He used DNA. It was very convincing but I don't buy all of it. It was fun to watch,though.

[blam]

That probably was Stepehen Oppenheimer. See post #51.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"It seems he feels we are all African and these Africans traveled to different parts of the world to become different ethnic groups."

I haven’t read about this stuff for a while, but ten years or so back the then current theory based on evidence from mitochondrial DNA was that homo sapiens at one time passed though a genetic “choke point” where out ancestral population had been reduced to a very small group, almost certainly located in Africa.

If so at least in that sense, we are all “African-Americans”.