On The River Of History

This episode begins our discussion of the prehistory of Homo sapiens the species to which we belong Our origins are examined on the African continent and we trace the movement of our Ancestors across the world from Asia to Australia and from Europe and Siberia to the Americas This episode ends with a discussion of race how it developed as a concept and what it means to anthropologists todayTranscript httpsriverofhistorytumblrcompost183673468776episode9homosapiensLinks and Referenced MentionedInspiration for the dissection ofpopulation and migration httpsblogsscientificamericancomobservationsplugandplaygeneticsracialmigrationsandhumanhistorySteve Olson quote Mapping Human History Mariner Books2002African Multiregionalism httpswwwsciencedirectcomsciencearticlepiiS0959437X1730182XdgcidauthorBorrowing of the term Ancestor The Humans Who Went Extinct CliveFinlayson Oxford University Press 2009Generalist Specialistshttpswwwresearchgatenetpublication326689995DefiningthegeneralistspecialistnicheforPleistoceneHomosapi