When I stop to think about our world, and how the people in our world were created, it amazes me at how far we have come from the first people to walk this earth. Homo sapiens first walked the earth 250,000 years ago in southern and eastern Africa. This was the home to "human revolution" which shaped the way people lived along with their behaviors. Human beings started to shape out different environments in Africa such as forests and deserts. Early humans taught themselves different technological innovations such as stones and blades along with the creation of hunting and fishing. They used different types of body ornaments such as beads and pigments to show social and symbolic behavior. All these different aspects of life that human beings taught themselves has now become the base of what we use in our everyday lives. Its amazing how things evolve slowly one after another whether they are human beings or activities of human beings. They evolve after each other creating a world of technologically advanced societies.
Human migration first led to the Middle East about 40,000 years ago. And soon after into Australia about 60,000 years ago. The Americas were the latest settlement somewhere between 30,000 to 15,000 years ago. The last phase of human migration was the Pacific. After all these migrations, outcomes of these were the first human societies. These were the Paleolithic societies which only contained about 25-50 people. From these societies shaped out rules such as men hunted for food and woman were to cook and clean and take care of the family. They also shaped out rules of incest and adultery which were clearly prohibited. In our day in age now, almost 80% of people strongly believe in those rules and follow them day to day. Its amazing how we still abide by the rules that we made 100,000 years ago as it is our everyday life now. Its amazing that things like this can carry on generation after generation.
The first humans in my point of view have shaped our everyday lives. They have made a solid foundation for us and it continues now and will forever.
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