cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43462600

This map shows the spread of Homo sapiens out of Africa and across the globe, with very approximate dates.

Author: Altaileopard in 2006

Note that there are studies that suggest a possibility of polynesian peoples traveling to South America around 1200 CE.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8939867/

I still don't really know

I'm a Finn, meaning that part of my ancestors arrived along the arrow ending in Mongolia on this map. (And then, after we had already spread westwards, other people with different looking eyes arrived to the areas where the ancestors of Finns had once lived)

Talk about a long way round!

My DNA says British/Irish, my grandparents say Irish/Scottish and my passport says Australian.

This map is really out of date. We now know there were humans in North America many thousands of years before "15,000 years ago".

This is a better representation:

Thank you

I'm somehow mongolian with a hungarian-based language or something (Finnish)

I will always be amazed by the drive to cross oceans, especially in the arctic where death seems so much more likely. We still lose ships to the sea. How many additional people died simply from being off in their guessed direction by a few degrees? How many were lost at sea due to weather or not enough supplies? How many people does it take to reach and establish a viable colony? How bad did conditions have to get in the starting colony for a hundred people to say "alright, I'm gonna head out" and raft across the the unending horizon, head out for days, probably still see the land they left, still not see land ahead, and continue? Did they even have a choice by then or was it driven by the current?

I scream, for I do not know. Thank you for coming to me Ted questionnaire

How did they even know if they would reach any land?

If it were me I'd be like fuck it, I'm on land. I have no idea if there's anymore out there so I'm staying right here.

And humanity would be fucked.

There will always be adventurous people who have an itching to cross oceans.

Does this mean I can use the n-word?

/s

I came in to say this, too. Saved me looking up the link.

I aint no homo sapien. Im a hetro sapien!