What are the characteristics of Africans? The origin of the African drum

Two-thirds of the residents in Africa are black, and most of the rest are white. Only Madagascar has a small number of yellow people.

Their languages ??are divided into four groups: Khoisan, Niger-Congo, Bantu and Nilo-Saharan. Since most people living in sub-Saharan Africa have dark skin, African is often used to refer to black people. Africans sometimes include Arabs in North Africa and Caucasians in South Africa.

Among them, the Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world. East Africa also has the world's largest rift zone. Other deserts are mostly found in southern Africa and the Horn of Africa in East Africa. Within 15 degrees north and south latitude, there are mostly vast tropical grasslands, and the Congo Basin and the coast of the Gulf of Guinea are tropical rainforests.

The African tambourine Djembe originated from the Mali dynasty established by the Manding people in the 13th century. The earliest appearance can be traced back to 500 AD. Originally made by hand by blacksmiths. Its shape comes from the mortar used to pound grains. It has an hourglass shape and is open at both ends. The larger open end is covered with goatskin and played with both hands.

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the birthplace of mankind

Africa is the continent with the oldest history of human civilization. Since Darwin proposed the idea that humans originated in Africa in "The Origin of Man" in 1871, the world's archaeological community has provided a large amount of physical evidence, indicating that Africa, especially East Africa and South Africa, It may be the earliest birthplace of mankind.

There are 5 stages of evolution from ancient apes to modern humans: Lamapithecus, Australopithecus, Homo erectus (ape man), early Homo sapiens and late Homo sapiens fossils are all found in Africa, and their evolution process is faster than other Africa is more continuous, and the dates of each stage are earlier, which shows that Africa is likely to be the birthplace of mankind. [2] After the rise of modern molecular biology, it was further proved that all modern Homo sapiens originated in Africa.

Modern molecular biology uses genetic tools to analyze the maternal mitochondria and paternal Y chromosomes of African, European and Asian races, and finds that the most common ancestors of different races are 143,000-144,000 years ago. Modern Homo sapiens left Africa between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.

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