Class 17

Today in class we watched "The Journey of Man," a documentary film about the evolution of the human species. We were given a worksheet of questions that we would answer while watching the film. I learned that we can trace back in history and find information from the past by examining blood and DNA samples of different people. I learned that 50,000 years ago our ancestors were still living in Africa. The Sanbushmen is the tribe of the first ancestors of mankind. I observed many different races in just one of their faces, from European to African to Asian features. A genetic marker is a mutation that occurs through generations of offspring. The Sanbushmen were very advance thinkers using bone as spears instead of stone and creating a language of their own. We learned about the routes that people took out of Africa such as the route to Austraila.