FunFact#162
According to the International Organization for Migration, one in 30 people alive in 2020 were migrants. This number is expected to rise as populations continue to flee poverty, environmental degradation and local armed conflicts, or simply seek better livelihoods in an asymmetrically prosperous global economy. This movement isn’t new: earlier globalisations sometimes involved even
larger migrations. Our history is one of constant flux as people moved across the planet, mixing populations and cultures over the millennia. This forgotten global story is still legible in the archaeological and genomic records that our ancestors left behind.
Have a read of the full article @
Aeon.com *
*warning: it's a long read with some words of more than one syllable so some of you may struggle.