Beginnings

Hey Everyone,

As I'm sure you are aware, humans are everywhere! There is just no escaping them, we have spread to colonise almost every habitat on Earth. We have adapted the environment to suit our own purposes and increased in number to become the dominant life form on Earth. All of this from a small group of individuals which dispersed from Africa  around 1.7 million years ago. This blog is going to look at how the genus Homo accomplished this impressive feat. It will also look at the role climate has had in helping and hindering this journey and shaping the different ethnic groups we see today.

So buckle up and prepare yourself for an epic journey back to an age of Mammoths, Saber-toothed cats and giant Ground Sloths. We will visit ice ages and Sahara grasslands, examining the climatic shifts along the way. In this blog I hope to not just examine scientific papers but also bring you relevant videos and pictures which I have found interesting.

A Woolly Mammoth - painted by the people who hunted them

Hope you enjoy it!