Posted on 05/10/2009 12:29:19 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins
A single tribe of around 200 people which crossed the Red Sea 70,000 years ago is responsible for the existence of the entire human race outside Africa, a new study has found.
Research by geneticists and archaeologists has allowed them to trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of people who managed to cross from the Horn of Africa and into Arabia. From there they went on to colonise the rest of the world.
While there are 14 ancestral populations in Africa itself, just one seems to have survived outside of the continent, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The latest genetic research has shown that it was not until around 70,000 years ago that humans were able to take advantage of falling sea levels to cross into Arabia at the mouth of the Red Sea, which is now known as the Gate of Grief.
At the time the 18 mile gap between the continents would have dropped to just 8 miles. It is not clear how they might have made such a journey but once a cross, the humans were able to spread along the Arabian coast where fresh water springs helped support them.
It has long been assumed that humans success in spreading around the world was due to their adaptability and hunting skills. The latest research, however, suggests that the very early human pioneers who ventured out of Africa owe far more of their success to luck and favourable changes in climate change than had previously been realised.
Stephen Oppenheimer, a geneticist at Oxford University, said: “What you can see from the DNA of all non-Africans is that they all belong to one tiny African branch that came across the Red Sea. If it was easy to get out of Africa we would have seen multiple African lineages in the DNA of non-Africans but that there was only one successful exit suggests it must have been very tough to get out”.
I bet this guy believe in Global warming too.
If this is true, then I’M African.
I WANT PIE!
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“Oppenheimer’s latest book is called Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World; it reconstructs the movement of modern humans out of Africa and into the rest of the world, using genetic keys on the one hand and climatic evidence on the other. There were, he suggests, only two ways out of Africa, a northern route across the head of the Red Sea into the Levant, only available during the brief warmings known as interglacials; and a southern route at the other end of the same sea, crossing from Eritrea into Yemen at the Bab al-Mandab or Gate of Grief. It is this path, he concludes, which was not closed during glacials, that our ancestors took in a single migration some 85,000 years ago. One of the curious facts derived from his synthesis is that all modern humans with the exception of Africans are derived from those same intrepid ancestors who came through the Gate of Grief; and that, further, those populations we now know as European originated in South Asia, perhaps even as far south as Sri Lanka. Oppenheimer’s work, which is well-informed, readable and highly civilized in itself, confirms Africa’s place as the crucible of humanity as well as restoring Asia as our second home, as it were, the place from which we radiated out to populate the rest of the world. The Gate of Grief is so called because of the many shoals and reefs which exist in the narrows at that closest point between Africa and Arabia; but we can hardly fail to hear in the words the cries of all humans faced with the calamities of tectonics, climate and weather.”
http://lucaantara.blogspot.com/2005/01/gate-of-grief.html
An Amazing Journey.
Where’s ma free house and car?!!!!
What BS!
Noah’s family would have been about 200 people 20 to 40 years after the flood subsided.
sup homie
I don't know, homo sapiens neanderthalensis survived outside of Africa for 600,000 years, maybe. I'd call that surviving.
Sounds a bit far fetched to me.
I’ve always wondered about that. Good find.
I seem to recall the OJ Jury saying that DNA evidence was also BS.
That is not what the researches are saying.
Hey, they could also fly around in the air and levitate gigantic stone blocks with just the power of the their fabulous minds too. Wow!
Is Homo-sapiens-neanderthalensis an ancestor of Homo-sapiens-sapiens? The latter is what modern humans are classified under.
Yes, and Africa had the first ‘libarees’, public forums, colleges and universities, democratic government, technology, art, science and civilization beyond imagination. We see that today in the likes of Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Somaliz, and all of the other ‘civilized’ sub-Saharan cultures....a truly marvelous evolution of very sophisticated origin worthy of world-wide emulation.
OK I will amend my Census response to “African American”
And my applications for jobs and college
[farakhan]
That’s because the white man STOLE the black man’s technology and culture! Black men used to fly around the pyramids on their own wings until the white man came!
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Actually, we stole their MOJO......yeah! that’s it.....
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