What are the origins of human life? A new revision by scientists may surprise you!
Science :
In 2019, scientists announced they had traced modern human life to a single spot in southern Africa some 200,000 to 300,00 years ago. However, they were unable to pinpoint a more specific homeland since the early Homo sapiens fossils were spread across Africa.
Now, scientific experts have concluded that the human species did not originate in one single location in Africa. It originated in TWO.
According to The New York Times, researchers studied the genomes of 290 living people from various African groups, including the Mende, farmers who live in Sierra Leone in West Africa; the Gumuz, a group descended from hunter-gatherers in Ethiopia; the Amhara, a group of Ethiopian farmers; and the Nama, a group of hunter-gatherers in South Africa.
In a conclusion published last Wednesday in Nature, paleoanthropologists and geneticists acknowledged that not only is Africa the definitive origin of human DNA, but the ancestors of our species coexisted in two distinct populations for a million years before merging into several independent populations across the continent.
Interestingly, those two locations are believed to be West Africa and South Africa.
“There is no single birthplace,” said Eleanor Scerri, an evolutionary archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Geoarchaeology in Jena, Germany, who agreed with the existence of dual origins in Africa.
The Smithsonian also provided an explanation:
“Early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago. They entered Europe somewhat later, between 1.5 million and 1 million years. Species of modern humans populated many parts of the world much later. For instance, people first came to Australia probably within the past 60,000 years and to the Americas within the past 30,000 years or so. The beginnings of agriculture and the rise of the first civilizations occurred within the past 12,000 years.”
Understandably, the findings of this newly released study are life-changing for many world philosophies.
Christians, who believe God created the original humans (in HIS image), must now consider that Adam and Eve were brown-skinned and that The Garden of Eden was located somewhere in Africa.
White supremacists, who are convinced they are the superior and master race, must now concede that they are the seed of Africans — the original humans.
Historians and educators will need to begin teaching the true origins of human life and how Africa is the true birthplace of humanity.
Still, now that the world knows the truth, will they accept it?
OK WASSUP! discusses Science News:
We now know the true origins of human life.
“Still, now that the world knows the truth, will they accept it?” – DJ
Most white people, including Jews, probably won’t. But WE people of Color who are of Black African heritage certainly should!
In fact, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard this, and I have no problem accepting it.