Homo Sapiens left Africa about 60,000 years ago, does that mean we are all Africans ?

Question

Does that mean we are all African this or that ?

Answer 1

Yes, that is exactly what it means.

Answer 2

This question may hold within itself the answer. Evidence says that human life developed on what is now termed the African continent and eventually migrated out and continued to develop in other regions of the world. The larger issue is that all people are the same species. So, it's kind of wrong to say that we're all africans, where in.. It makes a lot more sense to say that we're all Homo Sapien Sapiens, whether we have migrated out of Africa, or not.

Answer 3

Technically, we are partially native African.

Not only one species of Homo Sapien existed at one time. 60,000 years ago there were forms of Homo Sapien in both Europe, Africa, etc. ( do not confuse Homo Sapien with Homo Habilus. Homo Habilus are tool users, Homo Sapien is not.) At this time these species were making the transition to Homo Halibus and a group of migrants made their way from Africa to Europe. Somewhere in the mountains of Europe, both European and African Homo Sapien met, and bread. This new cross - breed evolved into the modern European while some Homo Sapien in Africa Evolved into Africans. From Europe these another migration set out to Africa, the process repeated, and ant other group set out for North America, followed by South America. You know the rest of the story from here.

Every Modern Human is technically part African, but the process of adaption and evolution has changed each Homo Habilus based on their Geographic Origin (by this I mean where their Human, not Homo Sapien ancestors) originated.

Answer 4

Evolution is a tricky subject, as is where on the earth something actually occurred in our distant past. As humans evolve and change so does our island in space we call earth. Due to plate tectonics where we find items now is not the same spot on the globe that they originated. As an example, we find that the coast of North Carolina was attache at one time to the coast of Africa. Due orogenic events and other processes like erosion much material would be redistributed and possibly loss. The Atlantic is expanding at about 2-2.5 cm a year and the Pacific is getting smaller by the same amount. As to whether we are all African or not that is a moot issue for if we all evolved from a common ancestor such as proconsul, where did it originate at and that would be our commonality.

Answer 5

Yes it does mean we're all Africans and we should love and respect the continent,because it's our birth place from God. We as in the world who seek justice and liberty's for all. Should help Africa stand on her own feet free from chains and bonds that hold her prisoner today. Just as we enjoy our God given freedoms in America. The two birth places of great nations have more in common than people think. And as human beings trying to understand the world we should love and respect each other. Despite our language barriers and cultures.

Answer 6

No it means we are all people (moder Homo sapiens to be precise). The African origins hypothesis, by the way, is still under debate. It is the most plausible based on current evidence, but that evidence is pretty slim.

Answer 7

Yes, since we are ALL H. Sapiens and H.Sapiens originated in Africa. All of our "racial" differences are just evolutionary modifications to the different climates of Earth, and are almost insignificant when the Human genome is viewed in whole.

Answer 8

The terms "Africans," "Americans," and so on are more cultural terms with boundaries defined by things such as nationality and cultural group, and is the group of people that you share a common recent history and things such as moral values (etc.) with in more present-day terms. So in my opinion, although we all have a common origin, that doesn't necessarily classify everyone today as "African" in the modern sense of the word.

Answer 9

It seems to be, that we originated in Africa, thats fine by me.

Answer 10

yes but obviously very distant