海遠選載兩幅重要地圖，可用「原出非洲，殖民世界」一語作簡單總結，是通識教育的上佳素材。

雅帆亦推薦以下一本相同課題的好書，給有興趣的讀者參考和大學的通識教材：

《The Incredible Human Journey：The Story of How We Colonised the Planet》–By Alice Roberts–Bloomsbury

此書作者「愛麗斯．羅拔絲博士」(Dr Alice Roberts) 是一名合資格醫生，對進化解剖學 (evolutionary anatomy) 有濃厚興趣，並自1999年開始在英國布里斯托大學 (University of Bristol, UK) 出任解剖學 (Anatomy) 講師。她接受英國廣播公司 (BBC) 的邀請，從2008年春天開始的連續26個星期，跟隨BBC電視拍攝隊訪遍世界七大洲，找尋「現代人」的足跡，攝製成每集一小時共五集的電視紀錄片特輯，題為《The Incredible Human Journey》(不可思議的人類旅程) ，本年(2009)初在英國廣播公司電視頻道2台(BBC Two)播出。

上列推薦書籍就是這個電視紀錄片特輯的文字版本，其英文介紹錄述如下–

“Who are we? How did we get here? Part detective story, part travelogue, this riveting book retraces the greatest journey ever made – the migration of our ancestors out of Africa. Genetic evidence suggests that we all share a many-times great-grandmother, who has been called ‘Eve’ and lived in Africa some 200,000 years ago. Much later, between 50 and 80,000 years ago, a small group of her descendants left the continent – and went on to populate the rest of the world. But how did they do it?

Alice Roberts has been travelling the globe, following the trail of clues left by these ancestors, and piecing together the story of the human diaspora. From Sub-Saharan Africa, her starting point, she traces the footsteps of Homo sapiens into the Middle East, and around the shores of the Indian Ocean, all the way to Australia. She follows the trails north into icy Siberia, then east to China and west into Europe, before exploring the last continents to be peopled: the Americas. On her incredible journey, Alice visits some of the world’s least accessible places and hears the extraordinary stories of the indigenous people she meets along the way. She experiences some of the extreme physical challenges endured by the early hunter-gatherers as they roamed: from the chill of the Arctic to the searing heat of the red heart of Australia. She finds out how they survived – in the face of erupting supervolcanoes, the peak of the last Ice Age, formidable predators and even rival human species.

Alice also interviews scientists who are leading the field in palaeoanthropology and the affiliated disciplines of archaeology, geology and genetics. Preserved bones show what our ancestors might have looked like; stone tools and bone needles offer important clues to their survival strategies; whilst beautiful cave paintings, carved artefacts and beads reveal that, in many ways, these people from the deep past were just like us today. From the study of bones, stones and genes comes the clearest evidence of who we are – and how we colonised the planet.”

羅拔絲博士以其親身經歷和衆多探訪的精彩片段，配上顯淺動聽的英語描繪，分別透過其著作和電視特輯，向讀者及觀衆闡述現代人遍佈世界每一角落的足跡，豐富的內容簡單易明，兼且生趣盎然，既是研究人類進化史不可多得之作，亦是進修英語的趣味課外讀物。

雅帆尤感興趣的章節，就是羅拔絲博士訪問中國上海復旦大學遺傳學院 (Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China) 的Professor Jin Li(推測是金力教授)。金教授透過Y-Chromosome這條線索，收集了來自中國不同地區1萬2千名男子的DNA樣本，進行基因分析，希望可以確定現代中國人究竟原出中國北京人的「直立人」(Homo erectus)？或是非洲的「智人」(Homo sapiens)？實驗結果如何，雅帆在此賣個關子，留待有興趣的讀者自己尋找答案，詳情見上述著作第193至197頁。