05 junio 2006

Out-of-Africa. All of us come from Africa

Where do we come from? Appearing from the Great Lakes 100,000 years ago, more or less. That is the place of the beginning of our common human nature. Complete men and women population of earth dwelt from black continent. So teaches us Biology and Ethnic Science’s discoveries.

Spain in Europe has a big tradition on its own receiving new people: Iberians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, German barbarians, Arabs, Jews... It is not estrange that many sub Saharans inhabitants are nowadays crossing Mediterranean sea, coming again to southern Europe.

Same similar situations happen in the reverse direction. A classic example is Karen von Blixen-Finecke (dead in 1962), the most famous of all modern Danish writers, also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. She wrote a famous autobiographic novel titled "Out of Africa", referrring her account of living in Kenia, and the love she felt to that people and lands. It was used also as subject for a film based on one of her stories.

All the fossil rest of Australopithecus have been found in Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Chad and South Africa. About 1.8 million ago appeared Homo erectus our ancestor, which was the first human who left rests of cultural and social aspects, going from Africa to Europe and Asia, using fire and with social structure for harvesting food, with fixed fire positions and a prolonged period of growth and maturation of the children. That is the beginning of our human species.

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