People
Humans are also animals, and - like most animals - we migrate. In the distant past, people had to move with the seasons in order to stay alive. Today we have the skills and resources to survive staying in one place. But we have also created problems, such as war and poverty, that force many people to move. For those of us lucky enough to have a stable home, life still involves many journeys. And the instinct to explore keeps driving people towards new horizons. We are the only animal known to have reached the moon. So far! Out of AfricaThe very first people evolved several million years ago on the plains of East Africa. Since then we have spread out, migrating across land and sea, to reach almost every inhabitable corner of the earth.More recently, people have moved around the globe in search of new opportunities, such as the Europeans who founded new colonies all over the world during the 19th century. Others have undergone forced migration, such as the millions of Africans who were shipped across the Atlantic to America as slaves. |
