An analysis of thousands of skulls shows modern humans originated from a single point in Africa and finally lays to rest the idea of multiple origins, British scientists said on Wednesday.
Most researchers agree that mankind spread out of Africa starting about 50,000 years ago, quickly establishing Stone Age cultures throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.
But a minority have argued, using skull data, that divergent populations evolved independently in different areas.
The genetic evidence has always strongly supported the single origin theory, and now results from a study of more than 6,000 skulls held around the world in academic collections supports this case.
“We have combined our genetic data with new measurements of a large sample of skulls to show definitively that modern humans originated from a single area in Sub-Saharan Africa,” said Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Zoology.
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Well, I guess we know where the garden of Eden is now. Thinking on it now, Africa should have been the obvious choice.
Actually Lee, the Garden of Eden is thought by most with an amount of certainy to be in Iraq. Not to say that that’s where human life originated, but in the biblical sense, that’s where the recognized culture portrayed in the bible started, a handful thousand years ago.
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