(May 19, 2015 at 4:38 pm)nicanica123 Wrote: I guess what I am not understanding, is how hominids have been around for millions of years and were always more intelligent but only managed to stay in a relatively smaller area. How did our primate ancestors make it to the americas 50 million years ago, bears about 38 mya, or the cougars 8 mya? But humans entered the americas about 13500 years ago. Shouldn't the trend be that even the earliest hominids would have migrated in similar patterns? Wouldn't logic suggest that we should find some kind of hominid in the americas? I hope every knows that I ask with the sincere idea of learning the answers to my question.
IMHO, the ability to control their environment made it less necessary to migrate, at least initially. Other animals might control miles of territory and relocation was necessary to acquire new lands, whereas hominids might have been less territorial and were happy sharing the same land and working together against the forces of nature.
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