Re: Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago

On 2/27/25 12:40 AM, Primum Sapienti wrote:

Abstract
Humans emerged across Africa shortly before
300 thousand years ago (ka).

Humans stretch back at least 2 million years ago.
There's probably been only one human species for the last 400k to 1.5
million years ago, starting with the chromosome fusion...
There are many who claim that there just plain isn't enough genetic
distance to even warrant the existence of Pan. That, Chimps should
be reclassified as Homo, human.
Either your cite was written by extremely ignorant people or it was
created specifically for quote mining. Not science, social engineering.
There's been plenty of example before, in other areas of "Science."
One is the of the Oral Vaccine Theory on the origins of AIDS in man,
where on a since-deleted CDC web page they got everything wrong. I
remember trying to explain to someone, here on usenet at the time, that
the CDC knew every detail of the Oral Vaccine Theory, that it was their
job, and if they got every plank of that theory spectacularly wrong it
wasn't because they didn't know, but that the page in question was
written by PR nimrods to serve a social function:  Quell fears.
When stupid things come from what is supposed to be a legitimate
source you can either decide that stupid is not stupid, that you are
smarter than everyone at Nature or it's not about science but the
well established social program.
P.S. There were no "Anatomically Modern Humans" in existence 300k
years ago. None. Go ahead. Prove it to yourself. Cite them, the
actual finds. There were even distinctly archaics in Africa at least
13,000 years ago... and elsewhere. Not just Africa.
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