A wonderful scientific explanation of the fact that we are all from a tribe in Africa so there is no such thing as race we are all in one race it's called the human race . this program should be shown on national T.Y. in prime time it is now being shown of WGBH WORLD It's really great to know that racism is a lie and its time to end has come!

THE PUNCH LINE IN ALL THIS IS, WE ARE ALL AFRICAN UNDER THE SKIN THAT'S WHERE WE ALL STARTED!!

Seen it a few times over the last couple of years.

This was my first time. And I watched it twice.

And if I had known it was on before hand I would have watched it again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Eve

If this theory is correct, the "mother of us all" (metaphorically speaking) lived in East Africa, about 140,000 years ago.

Any genetic differences between current human populations, can only have appeared within this timeframe, which is incredibly short, on a biological scale.

I believe that the journey of man was about the first humans to populate the worlds continents the first group that walked out of Africa to find and follow the migrating herds of animals..Humans were living for millions of years before that

It depends on what you call "human".

Homo sapiens sapiens appeared in East Africa 200-140,000 years ago.

There were earlier members of the genus homo (homo erectus) and earlier hominids (australopithecus afarensis), but technically speaking, would not be considered modern humans. Yes, we can find fossil evidence of the homo genus going back 2 million years.

The migration you're speaking of is probably at most 100,000 years old. Cro-Magnons arrived in Europe 40,000 years ago. My point being, unless the multiregionalists are correct, all genetic "racial" difference between modern humans has appeared within an extremely recent speciation.

Which is what Journey of Man says.

Sorry, I did not watch it, and was not given a link to the PBS site on the program.

If so, then let me wholeheartedly second the call to watch the program in rerun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6A8oGtPc4

If we were to go back to the begining we probably start the journey in the center of a star. But this is a traceing of markers in our blood that lead back to Africa .These markers were collected from all over the world and led back to a tribe in Africa . Whih in reality makes us all related to each other..

ever seen the pbs doc. the great transformation?

it's about the prehistoric back and forth of mammals between land and sea. quite amazing.

i've heard a story alleged to be a tale of "indian" folk lore from the gulf coast about that very thing, though the tale carried out to humans...

I haven't seen that. Mostly because i haven't watched PBS in a long while, I mostly watch the discovery channel and science channel I rarely watch regular T.V.stations anymore.

that's a good thing. i haven't owned a television in years, the great transformation is fairly old.

i don't know what the policy toward linking torrents is, but i'll just say that you could probably find it out there if you looked (though i couldn't say for certain).

We can't possibly know where the first humans appeared. To think we can is rediculous. All the subhuman prehistoric remains found can be fit into the back of a small pickup truck.
Know that, and make your opinion from that.

either man evolved this way or the story of adam and eve is true...i choose to believe the former

although, there is the Scientologists view of things, we could all be here from another planet..