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Evolving thoughts on Anthropology.

Been watching documentaries on and reading about earliest Homo Sapiens out of Africa. 50-70,000 years ago. General concensus is there were two waves of migrations. First wave went through southern part of Arabia, skirting coast, to India, Indonesia, and to Australia. One branch went to central Asia. From here, some went westward to Europe. When the first homo sapiens arrived in Europe, there was already a large existing population of Neandertals there. Eventually, they displaced them, even though the Neandertals had larger, stronger bodies, and larger brains, with no evidence their technology was lesser. One possibility was that they did not have an advanced form of communication (language) and that they could not see larger ideas (no proof they fashioned musical instruments or carved figurines or painted). One branch from central Asia migrated towards Siberia and eventually took the land bridge route to North America. All Native Americans from North to South originate from as few as 1