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Article: Migration: a journey through time.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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1 First steps
Homo Erectus was the first human to set foot outside Africa, about one-and-a-half million years ago. Because they discovered how to use fire, these people could move north and live in Europe's colder climate. But it was Homo Sapiens, the first fully modern human, who really kicked off global migration around 50,000 years ago.
Homo Sapiens' lives were dictated by the movement of ice sheets. In periods of intense cold, water would freeze at the poles and sea levels would lower to reveal land between the continents. Australia and Papua New Guinea formed one territory which was linked with the Phillippines and Indonesia. Using boats, people ...