Out Of Africa Research Paper

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Human beings, like a lot of animals, get to where they are by migration. Which is the process of a species or part of a species moving from one place to another. Due to this, Humans are now a world dominating biped species. Early humans evolved to modern Homo Sapiens around 200,000 years ago, according to the Out of Africa theory. The Out of Africa model is the widely accepted idea describing the origins of modern humans. It states the idea of early humans evolving in the Ethiopian area before leaving Africa and spreading to the other continents of the world. Human beings were very primitive back millions of years ago, compared to today. This migration took, well, hundreds of thousands of years to complete. Now, how did it happen? For this …show more content…

This was not the Oregon Trail, taking a just a couple of years. It must be understood that the human migration took a very long time, two ice ages came and went during the course of this painstakingly slow migration. After leaving the Ethiopian area, people split off from there. Some humans went down south further into Africa and a lot went up northeast into Asia. It is debated whether or not early humans went up through Egypt or crossed the Red Sea at northern Ethiopia. As stated earlier, fire was still relatively new, same goes with clothing. Modes of transportation were not advanced as far as technology goes. Walking, running, swimming and the occasional climb up a rock face was to be expected from primitive humans. Navigation with the stars hadn’t been used when the earliest humans migrated out of Africa. It’s most likely that they did not know where they were going and just followed the food and moved to warmer areas when it got cold, like many migrating animals. It is safe to assume that this migration for the early humans was a precarious journey. Plenty of challenges posed a threat to humans. Some may include other hostile humans, harsh climates, possibly hazardous plants and animals, foreign terrain, and

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