One Origin: Humanity's 100,000-Year Journey

Using this portrait photo as the reference, the person begins speaking on camera: “Humanity’s journey began in Africa. Over a hundred thousand years ago we cooperated on the savannas and mastered fire. Around seventy thousand years ago, our ancestors moved out of Africa along the Red Sea and Sinai, hugging the coasts through West Asia and South Asia, then eastward to East Asia and Australia. During the ice ages, groups pushed into the Eurasian interior, adapting to cold and ice. About twenty thousand years ago, they crossed the Bering land bridge into the Americas. In the last three millennia, seafarers spread further across the oceans. Each wave of migration carried languages and technologies—yet wherever we live on Earth, we share a single origin in Africa.” Behind the speaker, a holographic 3D projection cycles through scenes: Early humans on the African savanna. “Out of Africa” spreading to all corners of the globe. Ice Age nomads traveling alongside mammoths. Ocean voyagers making landfall in the Americas. The video is about 60 seconds.