American journalist to spend next 7 years walking to retrace humankind’s origins

In the context of the modern news cycle, American journalist Paul Salopek’s plan to spend seven years walking across the world gathering stories is radically slow.

In the context of human evolutionary history, his journey is running at warp-speed. Salopek’s route — moving from Ethiopia into Israel, continuing across Eurasia, and finishing at the very tip of South America — retreads the path our earliest ancestors took as they radiated out of the “cradle of humankind” and into new continents, a process that began 60,000 years ago.

Both contexts are necessary to understand Salopek’s “Out of Eden” walk, which begins in January. [...] thestar.com/

Actualización 18-01-13. Comienza un viaje de siete años siguiendo la ruta de los primeros humanos.
Un reportero, 7 años, 34.000 kilómetros, 60.000 años de historia humana, 30 millones de pasos. Así se promociona la aventura que el periodista Paul Salopek comenzó el pasado domingo y que le llevará desde Etiopía hasta la Tierra de Fuego en los próximos siete años siguiendo las rutas que recorrió el ser humano en su [...]