Name: _______________________________
Core: _________ Date: ____________
Questions to respond to while watching the movie Journey of Man (first 45 minutes)
1. What is the “time machine” that scientists have discovered to learn about the history of human
beings?
2. The narrator (Spencer Wells) has been working with a geneticist named Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
What type of work have they been doing?
3. What continent did all human beings come from?
4. Roughly how many years ago does Spencer Wells say that some of our ancestors left Africa?
5. What does Spencer Wells go off to do? Where does he go first?
6. The San (or “Bushmen”) of Southern Africa have some particular characteristics that may give
us clues about our distant ancestors and what they were like. What are two important things
about the San that Spencer Wells discusses?
a.
b.
7. Where does Spencer Wells go next? What does he find there?
8. What is one of the reasons that humans may have left that location?
9. Where is the next place that human remains show up outside of Africa?