Do you think it's possible that humankind originated in Africa?

Question

Scientists have come up with that theory.

Answer 1

There are AT LEAST four DNA studies that show the 'Out of Africa' theory to be totally impossible. Some genes don't occur in Africa, are massively varied and are about 2 million years old. the only way to explain their presence is if we interbred with other hominids. A lot of anthropologists and geneticists support hybridization. It's just the media that jumped on the OOA bandwagon really, it's not as popular as they make out.

My blog has a bunch of evidence agianst it collected in one place. Read 'the Out of Africa deception' post.

BTW, their blog works a d**n sight better than the 360 one.

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Answer 2

Modern DNA evidence seems to suggest african DNA is somewhat present everywhere.  Very neat stuff.

Answer 3

I believe this is the truth. Remember, it's the Mother Country.

Answer 4

Yes because of Pangea. All the continents where once connected so it is very likey that we came from africa

Answer 5

NO

Answer 6

Humankind did originate in Africa.  It has been scientifically proven--through DNA testing--that humans did indeed originate in Africa hundreds of thousands years ago.

Answer 7

Yes. It's almost certain that mankind spent the first five million years or so of its evolution in Africa. The first human ancestor to spread beyond Africa was Homo erectus about a million years ago and they evolved into Homo sapiens and they spread around the world and became us.

Answer 8

Bertrand Russell said, "Man is a credulous animal and must believe in something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

Answer 9

Physical evidence such as Skeletons and Artifacta and also genetic evidence currently points to an African origin for humans?

You dont understand the concept of evidence?

The theory is supported by evidence!

Answer 10

yes.

Answer 11

The only reason that some Caucasians and some Asian Mongoloids would doubt this, is because Africa is associated with Blacks, and some people find it inconceivable that that lighter skinned people could come from darker-skinned people!

Well, Albinos do, all the time!

Pangea was 300-400 million years ago, way before proto-humans ever walked!

Finally, DNA evidence shows that the Caucasoid/Mongoloid split occurred only very recently (in geologic time); 40,000 years ago! Humanity as we know it, has been around at least 200,000 years!

Answer 12

As far as I know and, from what I learned at the University of Minnesota, you are right.

      Both Lucy and her ancestor, not named yet, go back 3 million and five million years, respectively so, I'm guessing they cradle of mankind is somewhere in this region. Around the Olduvai George of Southeast Africa. A very old, if not, the oldest, area of the globe still as it was in the "beginning"

Answer 13

i do believe that archaeologists have determined that mankind originated in, of all places, Iraq. this is a theory that i have read about in both scientific information and theological information.  go figure!

Answer 14

Scientists are always coming up with something stupid, that they have no way of proving.  The Bible clearly places the beginnings of mankind in the fertile crescent of the mid-east in what is today Iraq. Use the scriptures below and check your maps.

Genesis 2:9  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10  And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11  The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12  And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13  And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14  And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Answer 15

Well, I'd rather believe that than the Adam and Eve story.

Answer 16

I believe that it is not just a theory, but the truth.