So It Begins


An article published in “The Daily Mail” in England (April 17, 2011), states that every human language evolved from 'a single prehistoric African mother tongue'.[1]

The basis for this theory is that as languages developed further and further around the globe from that central point, the fewer distinct sounds there were in each new language. Professor Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at Reading University, said the same effect could be seen in DNA.

The article states that “Every language in the world - from English to Mandarin - evolved from a prehistoric 'mother tongue' first spoken in Africa tens of thousands of years ago.” The study also found that speech evolved 'at least 100,000 years ago', far earlier than previously thought.”

After analyzing more than 500 languages, Dr Quentin Atkinson, a cultural anthropologist at Auckland University, found compelling evidence that they can be traced back to a long-forgotten dialect spoken by our Stone Age ancestors.

There is now compelling evidence that the first modern humans evolved in Africa around 200,000 to 150,000 years ago and around 70,000 years ago, these early humans began to migrate from the continent, eventually spreading around the rest of the world.

Based on this timeline we have been around for about 200,000 years, speaking for about 100,000 years and migrating for approximately 70,000 years. Our first “off planet” successful human-carrying flight technology was performed November 21, 1783 and our first powered aircraft flight was about 100 years ago (December 17, 1903) by brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Fifty four years later, on Oct. 4, 1957, our species inaugurated the space age and it took another 4 years before Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space (12 April 1961) and another 7 years before we stepped out onto another solar body, our moon.

By comparison to this timeline, the cultural development of an IPC will seem to happen instantly, but in reality will continue to develop and evolve over millennia. As we venture further form Earth either to the moon or another planet our root Earth culture and societal norms will evolve and change just as did our languages tens of thousands of years ago.

As you continue to read keep the Interplanetary Colonial Development Model in mind as it will be referenced in many of the following topics on developing a new society in an IPC.

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