General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Talk show host delivers DNA test results to white supremacist : ‘You have a little black in you" [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Any critter that can walk at 5 kph and can walk for more than 8 hours on a 1500-2000 calorie diet that can be met by omnivorous habits is going to spread all over the place. And all over the place means all over most places...the potential capacity to walk up down and across most continents in half a year is pretty impressive.
Being the clever kind of ape that we are (capable of acquiring, storing and transporting resource surplus, -and- ourselves) many of the barriers to dispersal of other 'land-dwelling animals" aren't impassible. Rivers, sea shores and sea narrows, mountains, glaciers and dessert might slow and channel the path, but wouldn't stop human migration.
Communication between human populations seems to have been much broader than popular street knowledge considers possible.