🎬 The Global Village (地球村)
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Welcome to New York City.欢迎来到纽约市。
There are people here from every corner of the world.这里有来自世界各个角落的人们。
Raised in different cultures with different experiences.在不同的文化中长大，有着不同的经历。
Today, some New Yorkers are attending a very special meeting.今天，一些纽约人正在参加一个非常特别的会议。
These people all took part in the Genographic Project.这些人都参加了基因地理计划。
They have taken DNA tests to learn about their ancestors.他们进行了 DNA 测试来了解他们的祖先。
Together, they are going to travel back through time他们将一起穿越时空
and find out where we all come from.并找出我们都来自哪里。
Good morning, everybody. How are you?大家早上好。你好吗？
Let's play this flag.让我们来玩这面旗帜吧。
First, everyone is divided into five groups.首先，大家被分成五组。
They are grouped according to the region of the world.它们根据世界地区进行分组。
Their most recent Genetic ancestors moved to.他们最近的遗传祖先搬到了。
You were basically standing in the part of the world,你基本上站在世界的一部分，
if you imagine this is a world map that your ancestors came from如果你想象这是你祖先来自的世界地图
most recently.最近。
Each group is given a different colored flag.每个小组都有不同颜色的旗帜。
The red flags represent the people whose ancestors arrived in红旗代表祖先来到这里的人们
North and South America about 14,000 years ago.大约14,000年前的北美洲和南美洲。
So these are descendants of the first inhabitants of the Americas,所以这些是美洲第一批居民的后裔，
the Native Americans.美洲原住民。
So you guys are the furthest point on the human journey.所以你们是人类旅程中最远的一点。
Now I'm going to switch all the way to the other extreme of the globe.现在我要一路切换到地球的另一个极端。
This big group over here, the Europeans, let's see those flags.这里有一大群欧洲人，让我们看看那些旗帜。
The blue flags represent people whose recent ancestors came from Europe.蓝色旗帜代表最近祖先来自欧洲的人。
Your ancestors were pretty amazing people, too.你的祖先也是非常了不起的人。
They began living in Europe about 35,000 years ago,大约35,000年前他们开始生活在欧洲，
but the genetic tests show that before they came to Europe and the Americas,但基因测试显示，在他们来到欧洲和美洲之前，
the ancestors of both groups lived in one region, Central Asia.这两个群体的祖先都生活在同一个地区：中亚。
Wall share a genetic marker in common,沃尔有一个共同的遗传标记，
a guy who was living in Central Asia around 40,000 years ago.大约四万年前生活在中亚的一个人。
So at that point there were no Europeans,所以那时还没有欧洲人
there were no Native Americans, there were Central Asians.没有美洲原住民，只有中亚人。
And now the pink flags represent people from East and South Asia.现在粉红色的旗帜代表来自东亚和南亚的人们。
Their ancestors arrived in Asia about 45,000 years ago.他们的祖先大约在 45,000 年前到达亚洲。
Now if we can ask everybody in Central Asia and everybody in East Asia现在我们是否可以询问中亚和东亚的每个人
to coalesce over here to the Middle East around 50,000 years ago or so.大约五万年前在这里合并到中东。
As we can see, Europeans, North Americans, South Americans, East Asians,正如我们所看到的，欧洲人、北美人、南美人、东亚人、
and Southeast Asians all share a common ancestor in the Middle East.东南亚人都有一个共同的祖先，都在中东。
So we are now down to two groups, one in the Middle East,所以我们现在分成两组，一组在中东，
the other in Africa.另一个在非洲。
Will they two join together?他们两个会联合起来吗？
Absolutely, but where?绝对可以，但是在哪里呢？
Where did humans live first?人类最初生活在哪里？
In Africa, human beings only moved from Africa to the Middle East about 60,000 years ago.在非洲，人类大约在六万年前才从非洲迁徙到中东。
Welcome home, everybody.欢迎大家回家。
This means that all of us alive today这意味着我们今天还活着
can trace our family histories back to Africa.我们的家族历史可以追溯到非洲。
In fact, we have spent most of our history as a species, three fourths of it,事实上，我们作为一个物种度过了大部分历史，四分之三，
living only in Africa.只生活在非洲。
From there, our ancestors began their journeys all around the globe.从那里，我们的祖先开始了他们的环球旅行。
But what does this news mean to the people who participated in the project?但这个消息对于参与该项目的人们来说意味着什么呢？
We're all very, very similar, no matter what we say or do.无论我们说什么或做什么，我们都非常非常相似。
No matter what language we speak, we're all the same.无论我们说什么语言，我们都是一样的。
Just think.想想吧。
Every person on the planet is connected to every other person.地球上的每个人都与其他人联系在一起。
We are truly one world.我们确实是同一个世界。
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