This story is part of journalist Paul Salopek’s multiyear, 38,000-kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our forebears. Learn More

The Great Rift Valley

CHAPTER 1: Out of Africa?

January 22, 2013

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A Walk Through Time

This map visualizes the estimated timeline of early human migration out of our ancestral African “Eden” and across the globe.

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