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"Out of Africa" Theory Called Into Question By Originator
Amiga Trombone writes "Christopher Stringer is one of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists. He is a founder and most powerful advocate of the leading theory concerning our evolution: Recent African Origin or 'Out of Africa.' He now calls the theory into question: 'I'm thinking a lot about species concepts as applied to humans, about the "Out of Africa" model, and also looking back into Africa itself. I think the idea that modern humans originated in Africa is still a sound concept. Behaviorally and physically, we began our story there, but I've come around to thinking that it wasn't a simple origin. Twenty years ago, I would have argued that our species evolved in one place, maybe in East Africa or South Africa. There was a period of time in just one place where a small population of humans became modern, physically and behaviourally. Isolated and perhaps stressed by climate change, this drove a rapid and punctuational origin for our species. Now I don't think it was that simple, either within or outside of Africa.'"
Not exactly. Continual mixing of all the different species together will create a species that is the average of them all. Since human DNA only has so many base pairs, the amount of information it can contain is limited. Thus information will be lost by mixing everyone together. Their strategy is not to simply do this however, it is also to mix in uneven proportions. They subsidize the birthrate of the desirable (to them) genetics, by taxing us and sending the money to africans living in our country and in africa. This higher cost of limiting marginalizes our genetics, as it is more expensive to live and thus have large families here. They also use brainwashing (education) to guilt us into having smaller families, have us delay marriage, Etc. Many ways they slew the ratio of this mixing. The end result will be a world population very close in genetics to the african species.
That's obvious, however you might concur that:
*the vast majority of biologists believes in the Out of Africa theory, so trying to disprove that might reduce the budgets of those who review your articles, award you with a doctorate and so on...
*that kind of theory is more likely to spur those who think there are different human races or species, as you can deduce from this very thread.