The Journey of Man

HIST 140Summer 2011By: Le Thi My Ho

The Journey of Man through the eyes of Scientist, Dr. Spencer Wells Mankind has been searching for order, settlement, for

peace and law, inrestlessness, a quest for new resources, more hospitable climates, basically desire for possession since the beginning of time

It is these desires that drove the 1st man out of Africa ~60,000 years ago and across the world, and they continue to drive their ancestors to this day, genetically proven by scientist

All the cultures of all the races of the world have been the creations of prolonged periods of migration - an important part of enlarging existing empires and conquering new ones

When new empires were formed, it created new opportunities; different people, cultures, languages come together and new ones emerged; knowledge was exchanged; technology was shared

Where Did It All Started? Scientists have traced the human migration all over the

world, by studying the DNA of thousands of people The y chromosome can be traced all the way back to

“Adam” 2000 generations; they were able to trace the geographical routes in which the human race took to populate earth

Studies show that humans moved from Africa to India and on into Australia. Also to central Asia, then into northern Asia, from there across the Bering Strait into the Americas

Both the bible and genetics show an “Adam”; the bible’s Adam is from 4004 BC and the genetic Adam lived around 60,000 yrs ago

Different climate and regions dictated the changes in the way humans look; people grew lighter skinned when they migrated away from the equator about 40,000yrs ago, cooler regions – less sun, resulting lighter skin

Dr. Spencer Wells found the missing puzzle that connects us as one, under the same African skin; as brothers and sisters; separated by 2000 generations

From these 4 regions, the key were found in 4 DNAs:◦ Arizona – Navajo Indian◦ Russians Far East – Chukchi Reindeer Herder◦ Crossroads Central Asia – Mixture of Mongolian,

Caucasian, Black Features◦ Australia - Australian Aborigines

The journey our ancestors started years ago is complete

SOURCESFilm: The Journey of

Man