The belief all humans come from Africa is a political belief. We were told that a black woman living in Eastern Africa some 200,000 years ago is the universal common ancestor of all modern human beings. Except, it isn’t so. Chinese scientists have pushed the frontiers of humanity’s origins beyond Western political correctness, and they concluded modern humans first arose in Eurasia, not in Africa.
Let’s take a few steps back. Long before the universalist hypothesis that “we’re all one human race”, European scholars believed there were five main races who had emerged independently from one another. It was called the multi-regional hypothesis.
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