![]() ![]() ![]() Hopefully someone gets on here and gives you a better answer, if they havent by the morning, i will dig up some better stuff out of my notes. Humans are the only known species to have successfully. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. Maybe search this : "multiregional hypothesis vs out of africa" dig around some Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. This one gets deep into genetics( it bugs me a bit because the guys SWEARS he has the answer), but its fascinating. I have never had those concepts broken down so simply by a PhD in a classroom.Įdit : This is a series on the "out of africa hypothesis. ![]() But for starters, The Cosmos episode on evolution was actually a really great explanation of ev processes. Let me look up a few things and edit this with some links. You cant get it boiled down to an hour on natgeo. So to speak to your statement, this topic is very broad, but highly detailed. There are a few hypotheses that are debated, sometimes quite heatedly, and we still dont have a definitive answer.If i am being honest, every time I have come down on one side or the other of said debate, i read/see/learn something equally as compelling from the other camp. The bigger problem, and this is coming from a student that has been rigorously studying this for a few years, is that there is much less consensus than you think. It is hard to sum up 50 million years of progress in a single sitting, and you cant ignore all that and focus on the last 180,000 yrs either. When you get to human evolution, it gets really complex. This means understanding evolutionary mechanisms & processes, as well as outside factors that foster evolution. For starters, to understand human evolution, you need to have a decent grasp on evolution itself. I dont think you will be able to find that "one doc" that answers your question. I look forward to seeing someone smarter than me answer this one. ![]()
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