Amerika

Years ago, a theory called Out of Africa was enforced on the scientific community by race guilt. The theory went that as long as we saw each other as one species, humans would live in peace and the individualism could continue, therefore we had to believe we all came from Africa.

To my mind, it seemed likely that the opposite was true: history was mostly into Africa by three of four parallel strains of humanity which then merged with remnants of an earlier sub-species of human. This is why all humans are modern humans, since they are mostly the same origin, with different stuff mixed in.

Our four strains — the “root races” — are:

1. Orientals (Denisovans)
   

   Denisovan, member of a group of archaic humans who emerged about 370,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch in Eurasia, spreading throughout eastern and southern Asia and parts of Melanesia before disappearing sometime after about 30,000 years ago.

2. Australids/Aborigines (Australopithecus)
   

   Australopithecus, (Latin: “southern ape”) (genus Australopithecus), group of extinct primates closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings and known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, north-central, and southern Africa.

3. Caucasians (Heidelbergensis)
   

   It was the first early human species to live in colder climates; their ­­­short, wide bodies were likely an adaptation to conserving heat. It lived at the time of the oldest definite control of fire and use of wooden spears, and it was the first early human species to routinely hunt large animals. This early human also broke new ground; it was the first species to build shelters, creating simple dwellings out of wood and rock.

   Before the naming of this species, scientists referred to early human fossils showing traits similar to both Homo erectus and modern humans as ‘archaic’ Homo sapiens.

   Comparison of Neanderthal and modern human DNA suggests that the two lineages diverged from a common ancestor, most likely Homo heidelbergensis, sometime between 350,000 and 400,000 years ago – with the European branch leading to H. neanderthalensis and the African branch (sometimes called Homo rhodesiensis) to H. sapiens.

4. Africans (Erectus)
   

   Some scientists distinguish between the African (Homo ergaster) and Asian (Homo erectus sensu stricto) fossils of this taxon, while others lump them together as Homo erectus sensu lato. In either case, there is general agreement that it descended from an earlier species of Homo (e.g., Homo habilis) and represents one of the widest dispersals of early humans in our evolutionary history. It is likely that distinct populations of Homo erectus sensu lato led to the emergence of later hominin species, such as Homo heidelbergensis, and ultimately to our own species, Homo sapiens.

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires Homo sapiens to then have back-migrated to Africa and Asia since those groups are part modern human too.

A simpler view is this: these four root subspecies arose in different areas, and as Homo heidelbergensis — the European version — grew powerful, it then migrated into Africa, Asia, and almost everywhere else, producing hybrids of modern humans with the other three root subspecies.

That narrative simplifies the layered back-and-forth that must have occurred with hominin and later human species.

However, at this point Darwinism and Creationism overlap: whether it evolved or was created, the original human species was the real deal, and everything else is either mutation load or outbreeding that modified that. This is why Heidelbergensis descendants fear race-mixing; it destroys their abilities.

Ironically, outbreeding resembles mutation load because it incorporates the pre-human into the human. Abilities are lost as genetic frameworks are lost. On top of that, genetic drift if not corrected by vigorous natural selection or Social Darwinism also destroys abilities.

Consider modern humans. Half of them wear glasses; most suffer from cavities, need teeth straightened, or have other health problems. Living in nature would clear this up pretty quickly and remove these obvious mutations from the gene pool as the less mutated bred more and those genes replaced the mutated ones.

In the broader history of humanity, we are living through a time when the prosperity of Heidelbergensis-descended peoples is causing them to hyrbidize with Denisovan, Australopithecus, and Erectus remnants in place and update those species to more of the modern human model.

This has been ongoing for some time, since Asians, African, and Aborigines/Dravidians are modern humans anatomically, but future genetic studies will probably reveal even more of the influence of these ancient races or sub-species in contemporary human groups.

Tags: australopithecus, denisovans, genetic frameworks, genetics, hbd, homo erectus, homo heidelbergensis, homo sapiens, out of africa, race