In this video, we’ll explore the science behind human evolution and see whether it’s proven or a lie. Human evolution is one of the most controversial topics in all of science. Some people believe it’s a proven science, while others say it’s the greatest lie ever told. In this video, we’ll explore the science behind human evolution and see what the evidence says.
The “Out of Africa” theory, also known as the “Garden of Eden” hypothesis, claimed that modern humans began and evolved in a small area of northeast Africa. However, after new findings in South Africa in the 1990s, this Garden of Eden was expanded to include all of East Africa. Then, in the 2000s, the ‘garden of eden’ was extended to include north Africa with the discovery of fossils in Morocco that were identified as early Homo sapiens. Later, a novel idea known as the “African Multi-regional Theory” was developed, which contends that homo sapiens evolved across the entire continent of Africa rather than in a single location.
But the issue with the African-multi-regional theory is that it completely disregards early homosapien discoveries made outside of Africa, particularly in Israel and Greece. The “African-Eurasian Multi-regional hypothesis” would be a better name if the multi-regional theory is accurate because it would mean that we have included discoveries outside of Africa. In fact, Asian anthropologists already do so because they are not as constrained by the idea of the Out of Africa Theory, as their counterparts in Europe and Africa are.
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