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This woman is the mother of all non-African people
the genetic second Eve
She lived 80,000 years ago in East Africa
Her daughters and granddaughters would take modern humans out of Africa
to populate the rest of the world,
Here - on the coast of Red Sea At Gate of Grief
the most important journey the human race ever took
started on this beach 80,000 years ago.
One small group of people, one exodus.
This is the new frontier in the beginning of the rest of the world.
Yemen beaches were on the edge of world.
as they travel through an empty world, overcome hardships,
separate and go their different ways to discover new lands.
Others would continue past the gulf, moving east, beachcombing their way
along the coast to the Indian Ocean,
Within 6,000 years of reaching the Yemen beaches,
our ancestors would eat their way to Malaysia.
6,000 miles from Africa,
our family are deep in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia.
These are the descendants of Eve,
hunting in the jungles of Malaysia roaming in small bands,
staying in one place long enough to beat the harness the wildlife
and then moving on.
The great Toba eruption in Sumatra 74,000 years ago
was the single biggest explosion in the last two million years.
Northern Malaysia, India and the Middle East
were covered in a deadly shroud of thick volcanic ash.
The survivors of the Toba's volcanic winter
would take our genetic journey onto its next great move,
the unknown continent of Australia.
The first group arrived 70,000 years ago;
more followed over the next 5,000 years.
52 000 years ago in southern Asia
After centuries of domination by the desert, rains came.
Monsoon rainfall increased in Arabia and India
and the fertile crescent opened up,
rivers swirled and game spread north
our families and genetic lines followed them.
They walked north from the Persian Gulf,
deep into the fertile crescent,
following the rivers between the Zagros Mountains
Europeans were part of the same single family
that came out of Africa through the southern route.
From these the families spread quickly to the Mediterranean,
south along the coast of Syria into North Africa,
up through Turkey, across the Balkans and into Europe.
This is our new family,
direct descendants of our marshland Arabs in the gulf,
entering the unknown territories of Germany.
They arrived between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago.
a new thing that we find with these modern people in Europe
is the arrival of evidences of sewed clothing.
The world was cooling down again.
As the new ice age began,
modern humans have found one place to settle
New information from the DNA genetic trail
has our American ancestors crossing the Beringia land bridge from Asia,
25 to 20,000 years ago.
This is the last great journey to populate the world.
And the genetic lines all lead to one goal.
These are the first Americans.
These early settlers carried many different genetic lines.
They came from Siberia, China, Central Asia,
as far south as Malaysia and Japan.
80,000 years ago
a tiny group of modern humans braved the terrors of the Red Sea
and left Africa forever.
They carried with them the future of the world.
By 10,000 years ago they have penetrated every corner of the globe.
The most incredible and important journey we have ever made.