Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
Nicholas Bakalar
National Geographic News, December 27, 2005
Two archaeologists are challenging what many
experts consider to be the basic assumption of
human migration-that humankind arose in Africa
and spread over the globe from there.
Robin Dennell, of the University of Sheffield in
England, and Wil Roebroeks, of Leiden University in
the Netherlands, describe their ideas in the
December 22 issue of Nature.
They believe that early-human fossil discoveries over
the past ten years suggest very different
conclusions about where humans, or humanlike
beings, first walked the Earth.
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4 comments:
The genetic trees all lead back to Africa though.
Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala
Nusantao Maritime Trade Network of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Well...for homo sapien sapient they do. But the article is talking about homo erectus, who is actually found earlier in asia (1.8 mill) than in africa (1.6 mill).
The earliest homo sapien is in the Middle east (Homo sapien heidelbergensis) and the oldest Hss is from Africa. And, as you've correctly stated, the Hss genes also point back to Africa.
It looks to me like there was alot of coming and going before Hss......
You should read the book 'The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey' by Chris Beard. It's supporting the out of Asia theory and very interesting.
This suggests that we all need to ackwoledge scientific evidences as they unfold, in athropology as in any and maybe even more than in any science.
all need to be open as science evolve and not hold any model/theory as a dogma
It remind me the " spontaneoeus generation" as a dogma for centuries in medecines untill a bright chemist Louis Pasteur came in the 19th century with his genius, and with one scientific experiment ended centuries of obcurantism and stupid dogmatism and put them to rest for the good of mankind
So let us be open and able to welcome the new reality when it come and let us not be the new obscurantists of our time!
Freespirit
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