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Vol 1 Ep 10 - The spread of Homo sapiens, Part One

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The Journey From Asia to Oceania Over 65 Thousand Years Ago

The journey is an absolute quiz for paleo anthropologists trying to work out how humans migrated from asia to oceania over 65 thousand years ago. Walasia is named after an english naturalist called alfred russell wallace, who was actually born in the welsh village of clan baddock in monmouthshire. Wallace recognized that the animals that inhabited islands that are now known to be part of sunda were a lot different to those to the east. This would lead him to announce a zoological boundary where animals to the west would be asiatic in origin and animals to the east would be distinct. If animals could not migrate across to walacia, then human

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