[zeestephen]

I think the article exaggerates the disagreement about the geographic origins of humans.

The Great Apes - specifically, chimpanzees and bonobos - are only found in Africa. Both of those groups have around 99% of human DNA.

In addition, for modern human DNA, there is a clear "Out of Africa" migration that starts around 70,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, in the Fertile Crescent, in the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and in the Arabian peninsula.

Obviously, there are still many disputed issues...

Where did Homo Erectus come from?

Same question for Neanderthals and Denisovans?

I am not a religious person, so I have no personal stake to defend in that discussion.

On the other side, why would God deliberately try to deceive humans about their historical origin?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Common origins (and/or alleged common origins) doesn't have much to do with it. Thanks to DNA, it's known that these recent but earlier versions (particularly Neandertal) are in the ancestry of living people, yet the fossil forms are not found in Africa (even Africans carry Neandertal DNA). During the past 2 million years, what's now the continental shelf was repeatedly uncovered as the sealevels declined. All other things being equal, conditions are warmer the lower the latitude and/or the altitude. It's a good working hypothesis that while the interiors of continents were covered in ice, our ancestors did a lot of their growing up in areas now submerged.

The Elaine Morgan keyword, sorted:

• Wild orangutan seen using medicinal plant to treat wound, scientists say [05/02/2024]
• Prehistoric Water World [09/25/2023]
• A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds [06/26/2021]
• A coronavirus epidemic may have hit East Asia about 25,000 years ago [04/25/2021]
• Neandertal DNA from cave mud shows two waves of migration across Eurasia [04/21/2021]
• The New Story of Humanity's Origins in Africa [07/15/2018]
• Modern DNA Reveals Ancient Male Population Explosions Linked To Migration And Technology [04/26/2016]
• Human Ancestors Went Out Of Africa And Then Came Back... [1998] [12/17/2007]
• Human Ancestor Preserved in Stone [12/07/2007]
• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues [12/07/2007]
• Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says [12/29/2006]
• Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa? [12/28/2005]
• Evidence for the Orangutan Relationship [04/03/2005]
• Infectious Evolution: Ancient Virus Hit Apes, Not Our Ancestors, In The Genes [04/02/2005]
• Mexico Discovery Fuels Debate About Man's Origins [10/11/2004]

"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"

The Scars of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan

Primary Literature by Jonathan Marks
Benveniste, Raoul E. and Todaro, George J. (1976) Evolution of type C viral genes: Evidence for an Asian origin of man. Nature, 261:101-107. This study also applied DNA hybridization to the apes. They found a 3-way split.

socrates.berkeley.edu/~jonmarks/biblio.html