The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

This is volume one, The Prehistoric World.

Episode 10, The Spread of Homo sapiens, part one. Oh, Previously on the history of the World Podcast we have followed the journey of

Hono Sappin's evolution from its origin as an ape-like animal to the modern human being.

We have watched the technological developments

and the advancing intelligence that has led to our ability

to think about and plan projects to enable us to have the superior skills and

tools needed to survive in the ever-changing climate. We have seen how our

communication skills have become so developed that the tribal groups that we used to live in have been able to operate as one,

cooperating for the good of the group and enabling us to protect and maintain the

health of the elderly and injured members of our groups.

We have seen our inquisitiveness leading to artistic and cultural development.

Now we are on the cusp of our journey to colonise the world,

armed with all of our developmental progress.

In order to understand Homo sapiens expansion and our ultimate colonization of the globe,

we need to be able to plot some courses of migration

according to the evidence to hand. You may remember that we tried to do this with

Homo erectus way back in the fourth episode of this podcast.

Originally we discovered that the first Homo erectus remains were discovered in places

very far from the base of our story in Africa because the first

discoveries made were in modern-day Indonesia and China. We had to look for evidence of

the route by examining subsequent discoveries.

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