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  • DEEPER DIVES 1 - 50
    • 1. NELLIE BLY
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    • 8. DINOSAURS AMONG US
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    • 11. CLEOPATRA LIBERATED WOMAN
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    • 14. TONI MORRISON
    • 15. LANGSTON HUGHES
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    • 20. MARY ANNING
    • 23. HUMAN JOURNEY: MIGRATION
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  • DEEPER DIVES 51 - 110
    • 54. BANNED BOOKS
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    • 56. HEDY LAMARR
    • 61. NEVER TOO EARLY
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    • 63. SILK ROAD, POLO, TRADE
    • 64. SIXTY-FIVE MINUTE UNIVERSE
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    • 78 FLY ME TO THE MOON
    • 79. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
    • 80. EDGAR ALLAN POE
    • 82. SUSAN B. ANTHONY
    • 83. MARK TWAIN
    • 84. WRITING WITH PRIDE
    • 87. KING ARTHUR
    • 88. STOLEN: WOMEN INVENTORS
    • 90. SACAGAWEA
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    • 94. CLAUDE MONET
    • 96. LEONARDO'S INVENTIONS
    • 98. AMNH: BRIEF HISTORY
    • 99. BEHIND THE THRONE
    • 100. FOUR COSMIC MYSTERIES
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    • KUIPER BELT
    • OORT CLOUD

Our Human Journey

Migration: Past, Present, Future

Suggested Media

Web Resources: Print

  • • AFRICANS WITH NEANDERTHAL DNA (MIGRATION TO AND FROM AFRICA IN ANCIENT TIMES): https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry-surprising-amount-neanderthal-dna • NON-AFRICAN DNA GIVES CLUES: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/oldest-human-genomes-lrj-neanderthals.html • HOMO SAPIENS NEEDED NEANDERTHALS TO SURVIVE (Johannes Krause): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o DNA FROM DIRT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/ancient-human-dna-cave-dirt.html?
  • • CALIFORNIA HOMININS: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/science/prehistoric-humans-north-america-california-nature-study.html
  • • CALIFORNIA HOMININS: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mastodons-americas-peopling-migrations-archaeology-science
  • • OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-morocco.html
  • • OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS:
  • http://theconversation.com/modern-humans-evolved-100-000-years-earlier-than-we-thought-and-not-just-in-east-africa-78875
  • • AUSTRALIAN MIGRATION: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a60876432/human-migration-australia/
  • • ANCIENT HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1070/early-human-migration/
  • • HOMO ERECTUS MIGRATION: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-erectus-our-ancient-ancestor.html
  • • HOMO ERECTUS WAS DOMINANT NEARLY 2 MILLION YEARS AGO: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/skull-homo-erectus-human-evolution
  • • NEANDERTHALS: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals
  • • SAPIENS MIGHT HAVE GONE EXTINCT WITHOUT NEANDERTHALS: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o.amp
  • • IMMUNITY GENES FROM INTERBREEDING WITH NEANDERTHALS: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160107140408.htm
  • • IMMUNITY: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thank-neanderthals-your-immune-system-180957761/
  • • HOMO SAPIENS LEFT AFRICA MUCH EARLIER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT: https://psmag.com/news/why-and-when-did-early-humans-leave-africa
  • • EARLY HOMO SAPIENS MIGRATIONS: https://www.livescience.com/44988-humans-dispersed-earlier-than-thought.html
  • • EARLY HOMO SAPIENS MIGRATIONS: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-humans-migrated-out-of-africa-several-times-dna-study-suggests-180984824/
  • • EARLY HUMAN MIGRATIONS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations
  • • EARLY HUMAN MIGRATIONS: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1070/early-human-migration/
  • • EARLY HUMAN MIGRATIONS: https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/archaeology/human-species-migration-route-asia-b2646207.html
  • • WHITE SANDS, NM: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/oldest-fossil-human-footprints-in-north-america-are-23000-years-old-study-reaffirms-180983018/
  • • WHITE SANDS, NM: https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature/fossilized-footprints.htm
  • • WHITE SANDS, NM: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/05/tests-confirm-humans-tramped-around-north-america-more-than-20-000-years-ago/
  • • SOLUTREAN HYPOTHESIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis
  • • NORTH AMERICA: THREE THEORIES: https://www.history.com/news/human-migration-americas-beringia
  • • USING BOATS: https://phys.org/news/2012-03-evidence-neanderthals-boats-modern-humans.html#google_vignette
  • • USING BOATS: https://www.science.org/content/article/neandertals-stone-age-people-may-have-voyaged-mediterranean

Web Resources: Video

1. The Human Migration program could include a few video clips; here's a cool "silent" clip that I would narrate that shows how Homo sapiens spread across the planet: http://www.sapiens.org/evolution/early-human-migration/ 2. The website www.sapiens.org is a great resource. 3. Here's a wonderful little video from Business Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0 4. AMNH and Human Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZv8VyIQ7YU 5. Human Migration Overview (12 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmboVmtqNJc 6. Why Europeans and Asians Developed So Differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBDShN8F-E 7. Humans in North America (New Mexico Foot Prints): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmboVmtqNJc 8. Hominins in California 130,000 Years Ago?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3Dhdk30mc 9. White Sands, New Mexico, footprints (PBS News Hour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFk7o6C2kV8 10. An overview of the settlement of America (including post-2020 discoveries): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltH3hYsvVq0&t=654s

Oldest Homo Sapiens (Stay Tuned!)

• EARLIEST HUMANS OVERVIEW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human# • SCIENCE MAGAZINE: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/world-s-oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-found-morocco • NY TIMES: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-morocco.html • CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/25/africa/inside-africa-morocco-homo-sapiens-fossils/index.html • SMITHSONIAN OVERVIEW: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens

Early Hominins Nearly Went Extinct

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02712-4 • https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-ancestors-population-decline • https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c • https://io9.gizmodo.com/close-calls-three-times-when-the-human-race-barely-esc-1730998797 • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o.amp

Neanderthals

• NEANDERTHAL MIGRATION: https://www.fau.eu/2020/02/26/news/research/neanderthal-migration/# • NEANDERTHAL ANCIENT DNA: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals • AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM: https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-neanderthalensis/ • BACK AND FORTH MIGRATIONS: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-020-0222-3 • SEVERAL MIGRATIONS: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-humans-migrated-out-of-africa-several-times-dna-study-suggests-180984824/

Denisovans

• OVERVIEW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan • TIBETAN DENISOVANS: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/study-moves-date-humans-reaching-tibet-160000-years-ago • HISTORY CHANNEL: https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/denisovans • EARLY DENISOVANS: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7612221/

Current and Future Migration

• INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/international-migration-statistics? • WORLD MIGRATION REPORT: https://www.iom.int/news/world-migration-report-2024-reveals-latest-global-trends-and-challenges-human-mobility • UNITED NATIONS REPORT ON CURRENT MIGRATION PATTERNS: https://www.un.org/en/desa/latest-migration-trends-revealed • FUTURE MIGRATION TRENDS ON EARTH: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/gt2040-home/gt2040-deeper-looks/future-of-migration • SETTLEMENT OF SPACE: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1081340/full • HUMANIZATION OF SPACE: https://scientiamag.org/space-migration-anthropology-and-future-of-humanization-of-space/#google_vignette • THE NEXT 50 YEARS: https://science.howstuffworks.com/living-in-space.htm

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