Afro Hair

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D-MITCH777 Wrote: So would you say race does exist???

Absolutely.

Feel free to take a peek at this discussion going on at Archaeologica.org


http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewto...=10&t=2978


It's somewhat wide ranging but it deals with a main point which is that we really do not know where/when/how humans originated.

There have been two main theories in competition. The Out of Africa theory ( OoA) holds that modern humans (HSS) evolved in Africa and some 60-70,000 years ago began to spread all over the world. It made a de facto statement that there was no interbreeding between HSS and Homo Neandertalis ( HNS). It maintains that the so-called "races" of man all derived from HSS within those last 60-70,000 years.

The multi-regional theory looks at Homo Erectus which began spreading out of Africa over 2 million years ago ( fuck all creationist morons!) and which evolved steadily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregion...ern_humans

Modern racial differences make sense if 2 million years of evolution is considered but I have real problems with everything having happened in the last 70,000 max.

Recent discoveries have shown that OoA is wrong about no interbreeding between HSS and HNS. Recent discoveries have found a 3d group called the Denisovans as well and genome studies indicate cross-breeding with humans who ended up in Melanesia.

What else is OoA wrong about?

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Is there any evidence for different types of Homo erectus ???

Here you go. I warn you, this could become a lifelong fascination.

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/huma...mo-erectus


Scroll down to the Homo Erectus topics.