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DESCRIPTION:This month East Bay Atheists features Anthropologist Dr. Henry Gilbert of 
 CSU Hayward speaking on the origins of our species in Africa, and how they 
 spread throughout the world. Professor Gilbert is actively engaged in 
 research in Africa, along with teaching. Here is how he describes his 
 talk:\n\n“5,000 years ago a family of three foragers died in the Sahara 
 of central Niger. What is today a parched desert was then a seasonally dry 
 grassland, and they were buried on a mat of fresh flowers. This minor 
 Sahara greening was only the latest of many, and climate change has 
 intermittently opened and closed connections between Sub-Saharan Africa and 
 Eurasia since significant glacial-interglacial cycles started 2.7 million 
 years ago.\n\n“Humans emerged in Africa. Almost everyone with their eyes 
 open knows this, but far fewer understand the way that humans spread around 
 the globe. Who were the first hominids out of Africa? How many dispersals 
 were there? Where is your last common ancestor in Africa? Did you know that 
 Homo erectus from China is NOT the ancestor of modern Chinese people? Did 
 you know that the bow and arrow was invented in Africa about 70,000 years 
 ago and spread to Eurasia only 30,000 years later?\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/09/18709035.php
SUMMARY:East Bay Atheists Present Dr. Henry Gilbert Speaks On "Out of Africa"
LOCATION:Berkeley Public Library\n\n2090 Kittredge\nCentral Library Meeting 
 Room\nBerkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/09/18709035.php
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