Is it now mandatory we claim Africa as the birthplace of humanity?

Hi Matt,

This post will likley be interpreted as racist, but thats not how it is intended. As a scientist, I look at the facts and the details and don't take anything at face value. Here is my take on it...

One of the things that makes it easier to find old bones in Africa is that it is so UNDERDEVELOPED. No great civilizations asides from the Egyptians ever seem to have fluorished there, in fact much of Africa is in an arrested state of development.

If we could dig up all of Europe or all of China and everywhere else man has planted his posterior to build great cities - I think we might find that old bones are not exclusive to Africa or any place on earth.

Besides, carbon dating is only reliable within certain parameters and after a couple of million years the accuracy should be called 'guessuracy'.

The root races of mankind have never shown perfect genetic matches. Since we know now how the offspring of disparate racial types look - we can say with confidence that humans are not of a single ancestry.

The genetic pool just doesn't support the claims.

Dominant genetic racial characteristics would over time turn everyone dark skinned, as each successive generation passed. There is no evidence that dark pigmented skin in any climate would lighten to the level we see apparent today and only intermixing racial types leads to such a lightening.

I will go so far as to say that it is fairly obvious that humans developed separate from each other - on different parts of the planet - and only after developing their ability to travel, did they intermix.

While this may not give comfort to those who have some societal guilt complex and like the empty reward an 'African birthplace to humanity' might proffer the Africans who have been abused and enslaved, or whose ancestors were so abused - the true scientist can't let societal guilt play a role in common sense scientific judgement.

Heck, I could create a simple lab experiment with varying mice - put some with dominant genes in the mix and let them reproduce over just twenty generations and see how the 'community' looks. Humanity being much older than that would be like thousands of generations.

Evolution is real and valid - but it doesn't have to be spawned from a single point on earth. If anything, the variety we see is evidence that life probably started all over earth at the same time everywhere...giving tremendous variety to the lifeforms on our planet.

Just my take on it...

SDAI-Tech1