Africa Quote by Harry Johnston

About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared from Africa,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Could animals have migrated to a part of the world they were previously familiar with (latitude and longitude)? We’ve always wondered this. If a…

— Ken Ham

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa…

— Louis Leakey

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . .…

— Amerigo Vespucci

There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was…

— Joseph Boyden

“The first migration out of Africa, the one that gave rise to both Europeans and East Asians, eventually reached Sahul, the ancient Ice Age…

— Nicholas Wade

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from…

— Lewis Mumford

Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather…

— Jared Diamond

South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

— Jared Diamond