| Ssliasil said: This is what i originally believed, and it does have tons of factual evidence to suggest it is true BUT... There are ruins around the world outside of Africa and Asia, that are more than 30,000 years old. Before any of the migrations. Of course, To support your theroy, there are ruins in Africa that are well over 200,000 years old , which predate the migrations by nearly 180,000 years... But thats the tricky thing, why did Humans wait 180,000 years to migrate? |
No, there is NO factual evidence to suggest modern human beings evolved from several different species of apes to create unique races/breeds of modern humans. Absolutely none. ZERO!
Modern humans are decended from the Homo branch of the Primate tree. Is there an ape ancetor, yes. No doubt about that considering we share 98% (or 99%) of our DNA with apes. The problem is your suggestion that different races evolved from different species of apes. That is absolute crap. There is no science to it at all.
As for your follow-up response, modern humans (Homo sapiens) didn't exist until 200,000 years ago, the first migration of modern humans out of Africa isn't believed to even have begun until 125,000 years ago. The most successful migration of modern humans is believed to have been 60,000 years ago and is what gave rise to everyone that exists today. That doesn't exclude other successful human species from migrating before Homo sapiens did. Homo neanderthals and Homo erectus migrated out of Africa long before sapiens did.
So, 60,000 years ago modern humans successfully walked out of Africa and began developing into unique groups. This fits perfectly into your 30,000 years ago time frame, and this is actually backed by scientific evidence. You can argue whatever you like, but you can't argue against DNA evidence. Blue eyes didn't come before brown eyes, blond hair didn't come before brown or black hair. We take them for granted today, but they are genetic differences that took thousands of years to develop.
Besides that, modern humans weren't the only humans to exists. Neanderthal man and Homo erectus were both successful groups of humans that migrated out of Africa, but they didn't survive in any way as a current species of human. Neanderthal man as I said before was either wiped out by modern humans or interbred out of existence. There is no evidence to suggest Erectus survived in any manner, through interbreeding or otherwise.
There is no evidence however, that modern humans are the result of evolving from different lineages of apes. Even the multi-regional origin theory of modern humans states that a single human ancestor of African origin existed. The main difference between the out of Africa origin of modern man and the multi-regional origin theory is that the latter insists that homo sapiens migrated out into specific regions (Europe, Australia and Asia) and interbred with Homo erectus, as well as other lineages of humans that are known to have migrated out of Africa. Still the problem is that the DNA evidence doesn't fully support this hypothesis.
Again, you can argue whatever evidence you would like. The problem you are faced with is the fact that the DNA evidence does not support your argument.
Reading material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans
