Africa was the only place humanoids could survive without heated houses, before agriculture and ability to create fire. Africa has few hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding rivers.
So why would apes evolve into something weaker then? Something that cannot even handle the weather without wearing animal fur?
Evolution is a racist liberal theory that places white people above other ethnicities in the evolutionary scale and thus superior to other ethnicities.
The earth being round, it could have happened anywhere in the same latitudinal band.
But it does not appear to have done so.
OR...
The same conditions for preservation of remains was not similar.