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How did early Humans manage to actually migrate from Africa...

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You didn't learn this in school?

They walked and crossed ice bridges and may have even had primitive "boats" to float across the sea
 
Tenacious-V said:
This was Earth a long ass time ago, way before humans.

But you know, just as an example, Earth changes over time, and people have legs and walked all over the damn place.

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Lol this has nothing to do with continental drift, that takes place over such long periods that the positions of continents when humans left Africa would be identical to now (meaning the differences would be imperceptible to humans).

The answer is climate change (ice age meant lower sea levels) changing weather patterns (the area was far less arid back then), and human deforestation (much of what is now the Sahara was covered in trees until the Egyptians and later the Romans cut them down).
 
lastplayed said:
The Polynesians were master navigators. They used stars, birds, the winds, and could even read waves from what I've read.
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But how can you set sail not knowing if you'll ever find land beyond? When do you turn back and if you do infact turn back do you go and try again? I find the psychology behind it simply mindblowing, I guess I should go read about it as you can see I'm quite ignorant about this.
 
Here is a serious question MOTHERFUKER YOU HAVE THE INTERNET IN FRONT OF YOU LOOK IT UP.


Wait that wasn't a question at all.
 
Grimløck;86834764 said:
There's a doc called The Incredible Journey: Out of Africa which examines humanity's footsteps into populating the globe. Check it out.
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Was that the one where they traced the DNA through generations, migration geolocations and combined with the evolutionary tree? They had to search the globe for DNA markers in living relatives etc.

If it's that documentary then hell yes watch that as it explains it in great detail with facts, yes facts.
 
Hidant said:
But how can you set sail not knowing if you'll ever find land beyond? When do you turn back and if you do infact turn back do you go and try again? The psychology behind it all is for me the most amazing thing, I guess I should go read about it as you can see I'm quite ignorant about this.
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This happened over long periods of time, and they probably were master fishermen.

Remember, they weren't dumb, they have the same brain that you do.
 
Hidant said:
But how can you set sail not knowing if you'll ever find land beyond? When do you turn back and if you do infact turn back do you go and try again? The psychology behind it all is for me the most amazing thing, I guess I should go read about it as you can see I'm quite ignorant about this.
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Like the European explorers who had big ships?
 
Hidant said:
But how can you set sail not knowing if you'll ever find land beyond? When do you turn back and if you do infact turn back do you go and try again? I find the psychology behind it simply mindblowing, I guess I should go read about it as you can see I'm quite ignorant about this.
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Sometimes they had to due to overpopulation.
 
xbhaskarx said:
Lol this has nothing to do with continental drift, that takes place over such long periods that the positions of continents when humans left Africa would be identical to now (meaning the differences would be imperceptible to humans).

The answer is climate change (ice age meant lower sea levels) changing weather patterns (the area was far less arid back then), and human deforestation (much of what is now the Sahara was covered in trees until the Egyptians and later the Romans cut them down).
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Incorrect.
 
oneils said:
But I'm guessing most Africans lived near the Nile or the Red Sea and not actually in the desert. Migration from there would be tough, considering the times, but possible.
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See I get the part of living near the water areas would have been possible, but it is the actual act of migration that makes me wonder how early humans managed to do it.
 
BigJonsson said:
You didn't learn this in school?

They walked and crossed ice bridges and may have even had primitive "boats" to float across the sea
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Humans reached Australia before anywhere in Europe or America, and even with the seas at their lowest levels there would've been a 100km gap across pretty fast flowing waters, which would've required more knowledge than just rafts.

Evidence also shows that they likely didn't walk across the ice when migrating to America but instead used boats to travel along the coastline.

Brettison said:
See I get the part of living near the water areas would have been possible, but it is the actual act of migration that makes me wonder how early humans managed to do it.
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It didn't just happen in a few years, or even a hundred years. It took thousands of years of slow migration. The gap between humans reaching Australia and humans reaching Europe and America is something like 5000-10,000 years for example.
 
The earth was likely very similar to its current form at the time.

But you're having trouble figuring out how primates or early ancestors possibly could have explored enough to travel?

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They also crossed through the red sea.

Numbers are millenia before present.
 
xxracerxx said:
OP drop out of school or something? Or do they not teach anything anymore?
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As a parent I can tell you they don't they just teach to the test. I had to remove my kids from a generic public school into a smaller school that actually focuses on still teaching science and arts.
 
thefit said:
As a parent I can tell you they don't they just teach to the test. I had to remove my kids from a generic public school into a smaller school that actually focuses on still teaching science and arts.
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My mind was blown when my nephew and niece showed me how they teach basic arithmetic.
 
Hidant said:
But how can you set sail not knowing if you'll ever find land beyond? When do you turn back and if you do infact turn back do you go and try again? I find the psychology behind it simply mindblowing, I guess I should go read about it as you can see I'm quite ignorant about this.
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I've heard that people observed birds flying out over the ocean (and also returning from seemingly nowhere) and a few believed land was there, somewhere over the horizon, and they sought it.

edit: Columbus knew the World was round, he just thought it smaller and he could plot his way to India.
 
Ozzy Onya A2Z said:
Was that the one where they traced the DNA through generations, migration geolocations and combined with the evolutionary tree? They had to search the globe for DNA markers in living relatives etc.

If it's that documentary then hell yes watch that as it explains it in great detail with facts, yes facts.
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Yes. They isolated humanity's origins to a singular tribe in Africa, the Khoisan, who remarkably share physical characteristics of many ethnicities.
 
hucast21 said:
My mind was blown when my nephew and niece showed me how they teach basic arithmetic.
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Yeah I came home to my kids repeating a list of words over and over until it was engraved into their little brains and reading the same damn story over and over until they could recite it with out any critical thinking. The last straw was when their teacher outright said they are not teaching them history or science this year. Fuck you teacher I'm not raising no goddamn republicans in my house.
 
Even dismissing the notion of Pangea, the fact that the cradle of civilization happened in the Tigris & Euphrates should be more than enough proof that humanity went above and beyond the call of survival, which should also include Ancient Egypt's dependence on the Nile River alongside it.

People look at Minor Asia and the Middle East as some dust-ridden shithole, but humanity already made the most of its gains within those regions and helped build the foundations of civilization.
 
Supposedly things were a lot more tropical back then and the sahara was a tropical rainforest. Not the expansive desert we see today.
 
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