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Human evolution: “We do not have a single origin in Africa”

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From CBC News, the popular rendition of “We all have Neanderthal genes”:

Hybrid Humans: Who’s your daddy? Well, for humans today, it’s more complicated than we thought. New genetic analysis of prehistoric fossils has proven that most humans today (outside of Africa) have Neanderthal DNA in their genome – which means our early relatives must have interbred with this now-extinct branch of the human tree. But evidence is also pointing to the possibility that Homo sapiens may have mixed with lots of other extinct hominids, gaining a genetic advantage and then leaving them behind in the evolutionary dust. The most recent studies show that Homo sapiens also interbred with the Denisovans, a previously unknown species of humans that lived at the same time as the Neanderthals. People living in Papua New Guinea today, as well as aboriginal Australians, carry their DNA as well.

Now, among the more obvious things for that to suggest is that Neanderthals were only very questionably separate species.

Two other aud moments:

Dr. Chris Stringer is one of the world’s top authorities on human evolution, and a paleontologist at London’s Natural History Museum. He says the new genetic analysis shows we do not have a single origin in Africa, as previously thought. He also says that it could just as easily have been the Neanderthals who lived on, and not us.

Actually, it sounds like a split decision.

Dr. David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard’s Medical School, compared the Denisovan DNA to that of living humans. He was shocked to discover that the Denisovans lived so recently, and he calls them “the genome in search of an archaeology.” He also points out that this is the first time in the four million years of human history that we’ve been the only humans on the planet.

If the genetic evidence is to be taken seriously, they is us, so we are them. And they never really left, in that sense, any more than your great-grandma Minnie did.

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Quote: "Hybrid Humans: Who’s your daddy?" ==== Hmmmmm??? Genesis 6 Common English Bible (CEB) Genesis 6 Ancient heroes (4) "In those days, giants[b] lived on the earth and also afterward, when divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes, famous men." ---- Quote: "Dr. Chris Stringer is one of the world’s top authorities on human evolution, and a paleontologist at London’s Natural History Museum. He says the new genetic analysis shows we do not have a single origin in Africa, as previously thought." ==== Hmmmmmm??? Perhaps human origns came from Malaysia via Europe ??? Not long ago there was a History Channel documentary about the Nazis passion for studying origins of a superhuman race called Aryans. Incredibly they were going off some Nordic Pagan Legends. In fact Herman Görings Swedish wife Carina belonged to a cult in Sweden called the "Edelweiss Society". There were these Aryan Legends which the German Archealogists were following in the Himilyas while looking for origins of the Aryan race. The legends spoke of beings from another world coming to Earth and cohabitating with human women and the Aryans were the result of this crossbreeding. The Supernatural Beings were punished for going against the rules of their leaders for coming to Earth for doing this and they were destroyed in a flood. http://www.stargods.org/Nazis_and_the_Occult.html The SS even had an archeological unit, that went around Europe and even to Tibet in the Himilayas, to try and find ancient Aryan remains. They were searching for the Master Race, so fervent was their belief. So if human European roots came from Tibet as the Nazis assumed, maybe early humans evolved from this creature which inhabits regions south of Tibet/Himilayas who may have worked their way northwards. Notice the rather large nose similiar to Northern and Central European big noses ??? Notice also the blonde hair ??? Hmmmmmm, could human origins have actually come from Europe instead of Africa ??? http://www.etawau.com/Geography/Sandakan/Proboscis/Proboscis02.jpg Isn't Myth manufacturing and fable fabrication fun ??? ********** News: "If the genetic evidence is to be taken seriously, they is us, so we are them. And they never really left, in that sense, any more than your great-grandma Minnie did." ==== Let's be completely honest here. The myth of human evolution as coming from Africans had nothing to do with science and genetic evidence. It was invented by racist white people looking to justify why they should subject what they viewed as a sub-human group of other human beings they saw through their materialist racist eyes as looking like Apes & Monkeys from that continent.To this very day Africans are placed right below some white European stud on that evolutionary chart, with the African categorized just above apes on that same chart.Eocene
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