“A key period in human evolution wasn't in Africa” – David Reich
Someone mentioned OoA in a post so I thought I’d share what I recently heard David Reich say. For anyone following archeo-genetics, the field that has taken over the conversation of the evolution of humans, you know David Reich of Harvard is the top name in this discipline. That doesn’t mean his always right or that I always agree with him on his positions. He’s the establishment. Yes he’s a jew.
But its important to note when the establishment starts changing its tune. Here he is basically admitting that OoA is wrong — its myopic and arbitrary. Gene flow among homonins has been continuous in many directions across africa and eurasia for 2 million years and its been proven with archeo-genetics. “Human” adaptations in homo species likely did not emerge in africa.
What occured in our ancestry from 3 million to 3000 years ago is also relevent.
Yes, but why stop there? Why not go all the way back 3.3 billion years to when we were bacteria? The reason we start/stop at 5,000 years ago is because we are Ethnocentrists and we draw a line at the Battle Axe Culture. At that point, you could say the first ape to become officialy human is just trivia, unless we are having a conversation about ALL humans. And as Ethnocentrists, we don't tend to care, because we aren't trying to be human anymore. We are trying to speciate into Ubermensch. And that requires genetic isolation from other humans.
Humans were great while they lasted. Now it's time to focus on the future race of the Ubermensch.
Master_Foo 2 points 4 hours ago
You figured it out.
Why not go all the way back 3.3 billion years to when we were bacteria?
The reason we start/stop at 5,000 years ago is because we are Ethnocentrists and we draw a line at the Battle Axe Culture.
At that point, you could say the first ape to become officialy human is just trivia, unless we are having a conversation about ALL humans.
And as Ethnocentrists, we don't tend to care, because we aren't trying to be human anymore.
We are trying to speciate into Ubermensch.
And that requires genetic isolation from other humans.
Humans were great while they lasted.
Now it's time to focus on the future race of the Ubermensch.