Review on the Documentary the "Real" Eve

The “Real” Eve

The documentary “The Real Eve” presents a theory on the peopling of the world. It says that all humans descended from a single mother, the Genetic Eve, and originated from Africa, then spread out to the rest of the world. This means that all races, from Caucasians, Asians, Africans, and all the other tribes belong to a single line, a single race, and were only separated somewhere along the journey to uninhabited places of the globe. This claim is supported by genetic evidence found on people from different races. The differences in skin color, and other physiological attributes are accounted by the different adaptations that the peoples faced in their environment.

The theory is well presented using cinematic reenactments of the journey of Man. However, the archaeological evidences they have are not enough to support their hypotheses on the routes taken by the groups, and on the details on how the people lived and on how a certain man died. Some reenactments were a bit exaggerated and overly dramatized. They are just guesses after all, and it is only one among many theories on the peopling of the world.

In general, I agree to the Out of Africa idea, that the human race originated from a single mother from Africa then out to the world. Although I am a bit skeptic about the way they spread out, the routes taken and the timeline of the events. I believe that the book of Genesis presents a pretty good picture on how it all began, though the text should not be taken too literally. I believe that the author of Genesis may have written it poetically to present to the people in his time in the language they understood. Adam, Eve, the Garden of Eden, may have been symbolic representations or maybe the stories were accurate.

I would refer to the Bible any theories presented and try to corroborate the archaeological evidences and hypotheses from the theory. I think that the Genetic Eve mentioned in the documentary is related or points to the Biblical...