Genetic studies have put an end to that kind of speculation.
Only crackpots and religious nuts are supporting alternatives.
Only crackpots and religious nuts are supporting alternatives.
>> Genetic studies have put an end to that kind of speculation. Only crackpots and religious nuts are supporting alternatives.
David Reich (author of "Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past") says[^0]:
" The modern human lineage, leading to the great majority of the ancestors of people today, was probably in sub-Saharan Africa for the last 500,000 years at least. It might be much more. Certainly our main lineage was in Africa, probably 3-7 million years ago.
But in a period between about 2 million to 500,000 years ago, it's not at all clear where the main ancestors leading to modern humans were. There were humans throughout many parts of Eurasia and Africa with a parallel increase in brain size and not obviously closer ancestrality to modern humans in one place than in the other. It's not clear where the main lineages were. Maybe they were in both places and mixed to form the lineages that gave rise to people today.
There's been an assumption where Africa's been at the center of everything for many millions of years. Certainly it's been absolutely central at many periods in human history. But in this key period when a lot of important changes happen—when modern humans develop from Homo habilis and Homo erectus all the way to Homo heidelbergensis and the shared ancestor of Neanderthals, modern humans, and Denisovans— that time period which is when a lot of the important change happened, it's not clear, based on the archaeology and genetics, where that occurred as I understand it. " (emphasis mine throughout)
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That's a time period before homo sapiens, not after.
I think you may be talking about the ADOS people who believe all sorts of conspiracy theories like that, but are not a religious group at all. However they do believe black Christians and black Muslims are following the "white man's" religions. In any case, their beliefs would mean the ADOS nutjobs are technically "crackpots", as the initial post indicated, rather than a "tribe".
Not really, and most Muslims would dispute that the Nation of Islam is Islam.
The Nation of Islam is essentially a newly invented religion from the early 1900s. It has its own extensive Sci-Fi mythology (including the Yakub story) that is pretty much entirely different from Islam, though it borrows some aspects of Islam. It's heavily influenced by Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
Not according to mainstream Muslims.
Put it on your med school applications too when submitting MCAT scores.
The white colonizer did not get colonized by tribes in Africa.