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Out Of Africa or Not? Mankind’s Complex Evolution

Admin Oct 24, 2012

By Jeff Davis

Whether you believe that God created the races directly or that evolution was God’s tool in creating the races, it’s becoming clear that the races are much more complex in their DNA and the idea of one simple lineage out of Africa is less and less likely.

One of the mainstays of liberal ideology is that all of mankind evolved in Africa and the races of mankind only left Africa recently. It has become an article of faith akin to Global Warming. To question this liberal ideology carries an academic and professional death sentence.

Recent discoveries suggest that there have been hominids living outside Africa for very long periods of time. The Neanderthal for example lived in Europe for 300,000 years. A new hominid species, called the Denisovans has been discovered in the Altai mountains of Siberia. The remains of one Denisovan, which produced useful DNA dated back 41,000 years ago.

There is even a great ape, the Orangutan that split off from the other great apes about 15 million years ago and which lives in Borneo and Sumatra, thousands of miles away from Africa. An extinct ape called the Gigantopithecus lived in China. The oldest Gigantopithecus fossils are a million years old, and it is believed to have gone extinct 100,000 years ago.
With these examples of apes and hominids living in other parts of the world for very long periods of time, why should we believe that all apes and man-like species came out of Africa recently –if at all? Perhaps some species started in China or the Caucasus and the hominids that wandered into Africa stopped evolving and became the most primitive types.

An article in the Financial Times reports: “A new genetic study of a group of sub-Saharan peoples has challenged the prevailing view that modern humans emerged from one location in Africa before spreading out across the world. An international research team found that the Khoe and San groups from southern Africa are descendants of the earliest diversification event in the history of modern humans – 100,000 years ago. Instead of localising the origin of modern humans to a single geographic region in Africa, the researchers discovered a complex record of interbreeding and genetic stratification, challenging the view of evolution in one place. Details appear in the journal Science.”

“There are two main theories concerning the spread of humans out of Africa. The dominant view holds that modern humans began to leave Africa and colonise Europe and Asia about 60,000 years ago. The alternative multiregional model suggests there were several movements out of Africa with parallel lines of evolution around the world.”

“‘It is possible that modern humans emerged from a non-homogeneous group,’ said Mattias Jakobsson from Uppsala University, one of the authors.”

So there may be no common ancestor between the races, then? That’s interesting.

DNA from the Neanderthals and Denisovans has been found in modern humans. Perhaps there are currently several unknown hominids that contributed to the ancestry of the White and Asian races. This would suggest that our evolution was a lot more complex and that the differences that separate the races are much greater than ever before realized.

The article goes on “The scientists examined 2.3m DNA variants of 220 individuals representing 11 populations across southern Africa, the largest genomic study ever conducted among the click-speaking Khoe and San groups.”

“According to the study, the Khoe-San diverged from other populations more than 100,000 years ago but the genetic structure within the populations dated back to about 35,000 years ago, when it split into a northern and a southern group. ‘There is astonishing ethnic diversity among the Khoe-San group and we were able to see many aspects of the colourful history that gave rise to this diversity in their DNA,’ said lead author Carina Schlebusch.”

“For example, genetic data showed that the Khoe pastoralists originated from a southern San group that adopted pastoralism with genetic contributions from people in east Africa. This is an indication of how agriculture first spread to southern Africa in combination with the Khoe culture.”

The problem with those claims is that there was no agriculture in Southern Africa until the arrival of the first Dutch settlers in 1652. The Hottentots and Bushmen who lived hundreds of miles to the north, were hunter-gatherers and did not grow crops, not that there was anything to grow. No maize, no wheat, no native fruit. Whites imported all of them. The black-skinned Bantu peoples did not arrive in South Africa until the middle of the 18th century, well within recorded history. But that’s politically incorrect to point out that Dutch settlers were the first people to lay claim to the geographic area, known as South Africa or to point out that most Blacks were still living in the jungle at that time.

The politically correct theory is that all of mankind came out of Africa about 35,000 to 25,000 years ago and that any racial differences that appeared after that such as larger brains or blue eyes are merely “superficial” changes of no real importance. The Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon peoples of Europe, who are quite clearly from a completely different evolutionary line, are simply air-brushed out of the picture.