No Single Birthplace Of Mankind | The Hidden Dominion

The “out of Africa” origin story for mankind is a lie. It has always been a lie, and the science has always been wrong.

But lately, they’ve finally come around to publicly stating that the science has been completely wrong on this topic for the past three decades:

Scientists have revealed a surprisingly complex origin of our species, rejecting the long-held argument that modern humans arose from one place in Africa during one period in time.

By analyzing the genomes of 290 living people, researchers concluded that modern humans descended from at least two populations that coexisted in Africa for a million years before merging in several independent events across the continent. The findings were published on Wednesday in Nature.

“There is no single birthplace,” said Eleanor Scerri, an evolutionary archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Geoarchaeology in Jena, Germany, who was not involved in the new study. “It really puts a nail in the coffin of that idea.”

In fact, this theory is not new, but is just becoming widely accepted.

Even five years ago, the truth was floating around that pointed toward the same conclusion:

No single birthplace of mankind, say scientists

Researchers say it is time to drop the idea that modern humans originated from a single population in a single location

The origins of our species have long been traced to east Africa, where the world’s oldest undisputed Homo sapiens fossils were discovered. About 300,000 years ago, the story went, a group of primitive humans there underwent a series of genetic and cultural shifts that set them on a unique evolutionary path that resulted in everyone alive today.

However, a team of prominent scientists is now calling for a rewriting of this traditional narrative, based on a comprehensive survey of fossil, archaeological and genetic evidence. Instead, the international team argue, the distinctive features that make us human emerged mosaic-like across different populations spanning the entire African continent. Only after tens or hundreds of thousands of years of interbreeding and cultural exchange between these semi-isolated groups, did the fully fledged modern human come into being.

Dr Eleanor Scerri, an archaeologist at Oxford University, who led the international research, said: “This single origin, single population view has stuck in people’s mind … but the way we’ve been thinking about it is too simplistic.”

This continental-wide view would help reconcile contradictory interpretations of early Homo sapiens fossils varying greatly in shape, scattered from South Africa (Florisbad) to Ethiopia (Omo Kibish) to Morocco (Jebel Irhoud).

So both the science and the experts have been wrong for decades. But you should totally trust them now. I’m sure they got it right this time.

Surely the science won’t change again in another couple of decades when this new theory is also demonstratably proven to be false, and we have (more) evidence of outside-of-Africa origins!

Nearly every single thing they told me when I was a kid—Darwinistic evolutionary pressures, random mutations, polar ice caps melting, being gay is genetic, this single-point Africa origin story, etc.—has been proven by their own science to be a lie.