Did first humans come out of Middle East and not Africa?...

Daily Mail ^ | December 27, 2010 | Matthew Kalman

[decimon]

Scientists could be forced to re-write the history of the evolution of modern man after the discovery of 400,000-year-old human remains.

Until now, researchers believed that homo sapiens, the direct descendants of modern man, evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago and gradually migrated north, through the Middle East, to Europe and Asia.

Recently, discoveries of early human remains in China and Spain have cast doubt on the 'Out of Africa' theory, but no-one was certain.

The new discovery of pre-historic human remains by Israeli university explorers in a cave near Ben-Gurion airport could force scientists to re-think earlier theories.

[blam]

Stranger In A New Land

Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site.

I wonder why they call him an explorer. Why not resident?

[bigheadfred]

a stone hand ax, dates to 900,000 years ago..

This is where someone posts a picture of a battle axe far, far older. But it ain't gonna be me.

[dartuser]

Scientists could be forced to re-write the history of the evolution of modern man

I hate it when that happens.

[MestaMachine]

“...could force scientists to re-think earlier theories.”

Again.

Why doesn’t common sense apply to any of this? The races rose where they were and still are. Not much has changed since the advent of modern man except for the invention of air travel which has completely plunged ALL of this into the chaos that seems to set the “scientific” community on its freaking ear.
Black men did not travel to Europe and suddenly become snow white or vice versa. Nor did they suddenly become Chinese and/or other orientals.
Black men and white men and orientals did not travel to eastern North America and suddenly become copper-skinned Lenape.

[MestaMachine]

EXACTLY!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

We are all Arabs now? WTF! ROFLMAO!

[tacticalogic]

And will they return?

[MHGinTN]

Na, nah nah, the first humans came out and now there are no human beings int he middle east.

[Publius6961]

Scientists could be forced to re-write the history of the evolution of modern man after the discovery of 400,000-year-old human remains.
Until now, researchers believed that homo sapiens, the direct descendants of modern man, evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago and gradually migrated north, through the Middle East, to Europe and Asia.

Never happen.
Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Malcolm X, the Reverend Wright, and Charles Rangell would never allow it.

Africa must enjoy special historical status, no matter how imaginary it may be. Justice demands it, and the self-evident fact that Africa is a total failure today, a basket case in any human terms imanigeable, is the fault of White Europeans.

Can we just agree on that?

[Publius6961]

True enough. Science writers do nearly as much damage to science as climatologists. weather reporters readers.

There.
Fixed it for them.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ll be cool with it, so long as I’m not pinged to it.

[Mike Darancette]

The new discovery of pre-historic human remains by Israeli university explorers in a cave near Ben-Gurion airport could force scientists to re-think earlier theories.

Out of Israel? Who knew?

[maine-iac7]

what you said

it amuses me that the origin of Native Americans has always been supposed to be from the Old World - the premise seeming to be that because the ‘New” world and it's people were unknown and not a part of "history" that the people here then could not have been native to the the Americas, but must have come from the ‘known world.’

Same with the Bering Straight theory. The Inuits are more like the Mongols of the Steppes than the Natives of the lower Americas and well may be related to the Mongols. HOWever - Could the migration not have gone in the other direction just as easily?

[octex]

An atlas will show that the Middle East IS in Africa. Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc., are in Southern Asia.

So, it could be true that early man migrated from the Middle East, but it is still on the African Continent, so no history needs to rewritten.

Likewise, Canada, the USA and Mexico are all on the North American Continent.

[gleeaikin]

Anyone know how the teeth were dated? By dating of the teeth themselves, or by stratigraphy?

[ZULU]

Intriguing and potentially revolutionary.

I just wonder how valid and accurate a few teeth are. More skeletal remains would enforce the validity of this find.

At 400,000 years, I doubt if genetic information coul dbe obtained.

[wendy1946]

The Basic Non Evolution of Modern Man

[neverdem]

These Israelis just did themselves no favor. It's a twofer. Both creationists and ‘out of Africa’ afficionados don't like it.

[colorado tanker]

Could it be we’ve found the most old bones in Africa because the conditions there are most favorable for finding the really, really old ones, not because we all came from there?

[SunkenCiv]

I think that’s a great big Bingo, ct.