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Forever? So they didn't originate in Africa like the rest of us? Is monogenism [1] falling out of favor? [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenism https:

Forever? So they didn't originate in Africa like the rest of us? Is monogenism [1] falling out of favor? [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenism

moistly 4y ago
In the article it’s “forever” in quotes. They’ve been here in Canada easily 30000+ years, and apparently there’s evidence of up to 300000 years existence further south, which is indeed as good as “forever.”
- gus_massa 4y ago
  Firs or second result in Google: https://images.theconversation.com/files/107932/original/image-20160112-6977-19qvr80.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=280&fit=crop&dpr=1 https://images.theconversation.com/files/107932/original/ima... The map shows 50,000ya arriving to Australia and 15,000ya arriving to America. The numbers are never settled and always approximations and fuzzy, so I'd not be surprised that later it's modified to 20,000ya arriving to America. Perhaps 30,000ya is possible. But arriving to America 300,000ya is just too much. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#Encephalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#Encephalizatio... that's the date of the first H. Sapiens in Africa and the previous species didn't extend past Korea and never reached America. From the article: > Then, in five centuries, they burned through the resources that had sustained Indigenous peoples for 25,000 (or 250,000) years. In the article it looks like before the arrival of Colon (or Erikson), America was an ideal place, but 10,000 years ago there was a huge extinction of the Megafauna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#North_Am... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#South_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#South_Am... . It's not very clear what happened, but we probably just got technology good enough to kill and eat them.

Forever? So they didn't originate in Africa like the rest of us? Is monogenism [1] falling out of favor? [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenism

moistly 4y ago

In the article it’s “forever” in quotes. They’ve been here in Canada easily 30000+ years, and apparently there’s evidence of up to 300000 years existence further south, which is indeed as good as “forever.”

gus_massa 4y ago
Firs or second result in Google: https://images.theconversation.com/files/107932/original/image-20160112-6977-19qvr80.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=280&fit=crop&dpr=1 https://images.theconversation.com/files/107932/original/ima... The map shows 50,000ya arriving to Australia and 15,000ya arriving to America. The numbers are never settled and always approximations and fuzzy, so I'd not be surprised that later it's modified to 20,000ya arriving to America. Perhaps 30,000ya is possible. But arriving to America 300,000ya is just too much. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#Encephalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#Encephalizatio... that's the date of the first H. Sapiens in Africa and the previous species didn't extend past Korea and never reached America. From the article: > Then, in five centuries, they burned through the resources that had sustained Indigenous peoples for 25,000 (or 250,000) years. In the article it looks like before the arrival of Colon (or Erikson), America was an ideal place, but 10,000 years ago there was a huge extinction of the Megafauna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#North_Am... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#South_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna#South_Am... . It's not very clear what happened, but we probably just got technology good enough to kill and eat them.