Talk:The Journey of Man

What?
This article is (probably) a lot of nonsense. The red flag for me was the stuff about the San languages.


 * 1) There's no such thing as a San "language". There are numerous KhoiSan peoples who speak several Khoisan languages (note the plural).
 * 2) These languageS are not the only ones on Earth which use click consonants.
 * 3) No contemporary linguist would seriously describe the KhoiSan languages, with their numerous complex clicks, consonant clusters, numerous vowels, and tones as "archaic." Mandarin is a much simpler language than most, yet no one ever describes the people or their language as archaic.

These are only the issues I'm vaguely familiar with. I imagine that someone more knowledgeable me would find many, many more blatant falsities than I did.

Either the person who wrote this or their source obviously didn't know what they were talking about.

Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 08:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

So you know, it's the person who wrote this article; not the author of the book (who also made a movie about it). The author of the book mainly relies of genetic markers in blood tests. 24.218.133.152 (talk) 17:13, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Page move
The page appears to be written basing on a single source, so it has no rights to squat on a general title, Human genetic history, which I redirected to where a multiple-source NPOV text is being written, Human evolutionary genetics. `'Miikka 17:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Correlation with the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
The evidence presented in the book suggests that our ancestors spent a considerable time in the ocean, obviously pursuing seafood. The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis suggests that many of our adaptations during that time were the foundations towards our species eventually becoming an aquatic mammal, similar to seals and whales. Perhaps other researchers have acknowledged this correlation and could be cited in this article.Landroo (talk) 12:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Misunderstanding?

 * "The earliest groups of humans are believed to find their present-day descendants among the San people, a group that is now found in western southern Africa."

By definition, every person on Earth is the present-day descendant of the earliest humans, so is this really what Wells is saying? — Joseph Roe Tk • Cb, 19:25, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

link rot
The Atlas of the Human Journey site has moved, it is now https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/ and is called Map of Human Migration. 100.15.117.207 (talk) 19:49, 13 June 2018 (UTC)