It Is Now Acknowledged That Humanity Began In Africa, On Which Continent Would You Have Preferred Humanity?

Question

to have started, Asia, Europe, The Americas, The North/South Poles and why would you have preferred that if you do not accept popular thoughts/proofs ?

Hey dumni, logical question to todays news journals and peoples reactions pal !

Dear Ron P, I am indeed a very FREE THINKER and liberal/open minded, have you seen some of the reactions to this fact recently, right here in answers ? just look at your reaction to a logical question, why NOT ask logical questions to rediculous answers, assumptions and reactions such as yours pal. One thing I will never be afraid to ask is QUESTIONS whatever the flavour, or thought processes that so many of us get entrapped into okay, NO you are NO anthropologist at all mate. Who are you kidding ?

Dear purple, you see, thats I wanted to hear from people, "It Does not really Matter"
we are here NOW ! and we came from Ape like ancestors! no ranting, just an answer, Oh My Gawd! Thankyou !

You see, leave the question long enough and some intelligent people get to see it and comment without so much emotion!

Hey "common sense" will tell you that it was not a popular thing to the "masses"for a long time until very recently, hence, ONLY NOW as in very recently acknowledged.

whoaa havent I rattled some people !

Answer 1

Well, asking that question is kind of besides the point. Humans couldn't have started on any other continent - only in Africa was there the confluence of environment and species that allowed hominids to begin developing characteristically human traits.

Darwin, in *The Descent of Man* suggested that we might look for our origins in Africa, but he was ignored for generations. When Dart and Broom unearthed australopithecine fossils in South Africa, their finds weren't taken seriously. Why? Simply because the European and American scientists who were thinking through the problem of human origins were so biased against Africa - darkest Africa, full of everything Europe and North America would have liked to believe that they were not - that they never even bothered to look there for fossil evidence. Most scientists in the late 19th century and early 20th century focused on Europe and Asia as the cradles of humanity, it was beyond them to even consider having ancestry in Africa. Why, that would mean that humans might have all been black once upon a time! Oh no! When you get down to it, there was a flatly racist bias getting in the way of doing good investigation for a long time.

So, what you're asking about one's preferred continent for humanity's origins is really getting into a topic that's laden with racism. Old scientists would have *preferred* Europe or Asia because those were "civilized" peoples. There's no good reason to "prefer" any continent over the others - no matter where we started, here we are - and admitting to a preference against Africa is not only pointless, but demonstrating a sympathy with some old wrong-headed bigots.

Answer 2

I have always been interested in history. I am a Numismatist and collect historic coins, medals and tokens. In my pursuit of books on ancient coins, I bought a book called Lucy. I was fascinated by it, I just took for granted where man came from. I have always had trouble with the bible thing. Anyway, it led me to buy more books on paleoanthropology. I pick up Dr. Johanson's books as I found them, as well as other. I learned a lot and found that there are a lot of theories going on also. The bit about the human race coming from Africa was backed up by a lot of people. I can see the white people of Europe in the early 1900's and maybe earlier get there dander up about it. It seems they could not change this no matter what they did. Actually, anywhere would be okay with me, as long as it happened or I would not be here writing this. I am now reading up on the wondrous creatures that existed on this earth from the beginning to the start of modern times. I usually only answer the coin and related question, but went looking for something else. Thanks for asking a question that got my mind working again. It nice to put the coins down for a few, a get a fresh breath of air.

Answer 3

Wow, chill out people. I think it is a reasonable question. I find the suggestion that humanity started in Africa to be lacking supporting evidence. Hominids moved out of Africa at least 2 million years ago. Trying to prove that humanity didn't simultaneously evolve in Eurasia is more of an leap of faith than science. They may point to a skull from Africa of the first supposed human but the funny thing is, it is always pushed back by yet another fossil find. If they found a fossil in Asia that was 50,000 years earlier, they would then say something inane as "This means migration out of Africa was earlier than expected." It is dangerous to have preconceived ideas and then try to make the facts fit their theory. Darwin did logically predict that human's likely evolved in Africa because of the presence of our nearest relatives, Chimps and Gorillas. I believe most of the recent "Out of Africa" faith is based mostly on a subtle racism that most of the Anthropologists would vehemently deny (i.e the supposed inferior and primitive races are found in Africa). I suspect a subtle racism that is not scientific in my opinion. For me the out of Africa faith is difficult to explain without this inconvenient topic. Too often paleoanthropologist will not admit to what they do not know, which is substantially more than they know.

Answer 4

the problem-loose ancestor of apes, gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys and guy, lived in Africa. Please be conscious, guy isn't descended from apes,gorillas, chimpanzees, or monkeys, yet they do have a difficulty-loose ancestor. And that creature lived in what's now Africa. What the situations were like on the time the first humanoid regarded is amazingly nonetheless contained in the realm of hypothesis. in all chance, the elements became warmth, nutrients became genuinely received, and there have been not too many predators. The more effective interesting question is 'why' did the humanoid emerge from the relations of apes, and why did not different descendents of that difficulty-loose ancestor also take the total leap ahead in mobility, dexterity and language?

Answer 5

I really don't care. Since our ape-like ancestors started in Africa, it's logical that we developed there. I can't think of anywhere else we'd do quite as well....Europe and N. America are generally too cold, S America has far too many predators...S. Asia might have worked. Either way, it really doesn't matter. We're here now, we came from Africa.

Answer 6

You have not rattled thinking people. Sophomoric rattling is expected of hominoids whether they walk on two feet or four. Your assumption is that people care. Why one would care makes no sense at all to me. We are not the same people our "far off" ancestors were and we do not have the same physical or mental needs that were required in the past.

I think, for example, people who concern themselves with what their "far off offsprings" will do or look like is easily as silly. Personally, I do not give a care to what happens a thousand years or more from now. Heck, other than my children and grandchildren whom I know or will know, people after that have no value to me.

Answer 7

It doesn't make a difference where humanity started. By the way, scientists have known for a very long time that humanity began in Africa. Have you ever heard of the hominid species, Australopithecus afarensis, particularly "Lucy"? This species lived in north east Africa millions of years ago. Lucy's skeleton provides crucial information about our past. Interesting, huh?

Answer 8

What kind of self serving question is that? Are you black, a free thinker or a liberal. What the hell does it matter what Continent we started at? That question smacks of stupidity born of your lack of knowledge. I would answer you with a more dignified answer because of my experience, but you would only come back at me with some infantile baby like answer. Go back to school, or go to a better EDUCATION. AND DONT TELL ME YOU YOU WENT TO SOME IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL. This is A WAST OF TIME QUESTION WHEN REAL PEOPLE HAVE SERIOUS THINGS TO ASK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT BOTHER ADDING ADDING AN ADDITION TO YOUR NONSENSE, YOU ARE RIDICULOUS IN YOUR AND OWN WORLD. HEAVEN HELP US.

Answer 9

What do you mean "now" acknowledged ??
Science has long known that man originated in Africa...
What difference or why would anyone care where man originated ?
Africa is as good as any as far as I am concerned....

Answer 10

I just think it's funny because all those white people that feel so superior have to face the fact that the original man was black.