Post #448799 by christiki295 on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 12:08 AM

Does anyone ever wonder about this?

Here is a random example of African Art:
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/10873179/African_Art_Tribal_Masks.jpg

I was wondering about migration patterns of humans, homos, Neanderthals, etc.
A friend suggested the "Out of Africa Theory," which I first thought was a joke based on the movie, but as it turns out, it is a theory begun by a professor at the University of Hawaii.

In a nutshell, it suggests:

1. Homo sapiens idaltu, found at site Middle Awash in Ethiopia, lived about 160,000 years ago and are the oldest known anatomically modern human and classified as extinct subspecies.

2. The next oldest fossil of modern humans outside of Africa are those of Mungo Man found in Australia and have been dated to about 42,000 years ago, so they are not the oldest in time.

3. According to the hypothesis, all 6.7 billion people alive today have inherited the same Mitochondria from one woman who lived in Africa about 160,000 years ago.

4. All men today have inherited their Y chromosomes from a man who lived 60,000 years ago, probably in Africa. He has been named Y-chromosomal Adam.

[ Edited by: christiki295 2009-04-22 10:16 ]