Thursday, April 30, 2009

Origin of our Species

There's some cool tid-bits from Sixty Second Science. They can now pretty much pin point where we came from.

A massive new genetic study proposes that humans originated near the border of modern-day South Africa and Namibia, a far more specific understanding than the vaguer picture of African origin that previously reigned.


Read the rest here

2 comments:

PBurns said...

This is all very true.

My research suggests that life as I know it started on Feb 3, 1959 in a hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe. How's that for specific support for the theory? :)

Patrick

Doug said...

Life as I know it started in 1969 in Anchorage, Alaska.

Kinda the opposite of your theory.
D.