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 CONCLUSION This chapter reviews what we think we know about how earlier humans established our global diaspora. Paleoanthropological evidence consistently refutes the hypothesis that humans migrated before they had storable and transportable food sources, such as those arising from food production. Pleistocene humans did not migrate, they dispersed. To explain these dispersals, this chapter first compares what we can observe about differences between living humans and other animals with what we think we know about the earliest human populations. Next, it argues that humans relied on a suite of integrated ancestral survival skills to overcome the obstacles they faced while dispersing. Finally, the chapter considers near, longer, and longest-term challenges to our survival and what we must do to overcome them. HOW DID THEY DO IT? How did humans become the "unstoppable species"? How did we change from a people of "bows, boats, and beads" to a people of "houses, herds, and hoes"? Our unstoppability arose from our diaspora, from our global geographic distribution. This work argues that rather than migrating in large groups over long distances, as commonly supposed, prehistoric Homo s

Author

John Joseph Shea

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108554060