I tried searching but didn't turn anything up, so I thought I'd ask.
I was in a conversation with a co-worker a few minutes ago where I joked that white rice should technically be "european-american" rice, which launched us into an intriguing discussion of where humanity may or may not have originated from - which, according to secondhand sources, might have been somewhere around what is now modern day Iraq (whereas I originally thought it was someplace in Africa).
Recognizing there may be complications in terms of defining what a "human" is and where a particular iteration was born, is this true? Where did the spread go? Second-hand question: Is there like a video or gif or some kind of animation showing the spread of humanity from its origin point to the rest of the world, and its progression to present day?
Thank you! :)
I think you are confusing the origin of humanity with the origin of civilisation, which are two different very different things. Humanity (homosapien) is originally from Africa and began spreading out about 1.8 million years ago. Civilisation began in so called cradles of civilisation (Mesopotamia, the Indus river, the Yellow River in China, etc) where, independently of each other, the first states began to emerge. Neither of these are my speciality but I suggest you just google 'early human migration', as there are many maps visualising the spread out there.