Gary Stix, "Traces of a Distant Past", Scientific American, pp38-45, July 2008

"Fifty or sixty thousand years ago a small band of Africans crossed the strait [of the Red Sea] in tiny boats never to return. Those first trekkers out of Africa brought with them the physical and behavioural traits - the large brains and capacity for language - that characterize fully modern humans.
"Geneticists can track the path of ancient migrations by examining genetic markers in Y chromosomes from men who hail from different parts of the world. Each marker such as M168 or M89, identifies a lineage of men and where the lineage originated. By building an evolutionary tree based on observing many living people with the markers, investigators can determine the approximate ages of the lineages."



Serra's Canberra Careers Market Survey Question - 2009

A small band of humans moved out of Africa and began to populate the world

 

 

Respondents

 

A

2 million years ago?

200

X

B

500,000 years ago?

214

X

C

50,000 years ago?

119

correct

D

none of the above?

170

X



Life is more than a career. Happiness comes from giving of self. A vocation is a complete gift of yourself to another person, whether in marriage, or to the person of Jesus Christ in single and religious life.

Archdiocesan Director of Vocations
Fr Emil Milat
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emil.milat@cg.catholic.org.au

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