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Teeth from China reveal early human trek out of Africa
- bhaumik 11y agoFascinating stuff. Wanted to dig in a bit and google sent me to this 2013 blog post? [1] citing a 2005 study that runs into a similar conclusion: One scientist on the team, Li Hui, said that 100,000 years ago humans began migrating through South and Southeast Asia into China from Africa. Their testing showed that 65 branches of Chinese all carry similar DNA mutations as the people of Southeast Asia. Another scientist on the team, Jin Li had this to say about their findings, “we did not see even one single individual that could be considered as a descendant of the hοmo erectus in China, rather, everybody was a descendant of our ancestors from Africa.” Interesting social theory in it as well: Richard Leaky, a well-known, Kenyan-born Paleoanthropologist who has dedicated his life to studying fossils and the past believes that we must study the past if we are to have a future. He had this to say, “If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it’s solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive, then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges.” [1] http://kulturekritic.com/2013/12/news/dna-evidence-proves-first-people-china-black/ http://kulturekritic.com/2013/12/news/dna-evidence-proves-fi...
- guelo 11y agoThey couldn't date the teeth themselves "So the team dated various calcite deposits in the cave and used the assortment of animal remains to deduce that the human teeth were probably between 80,000 and 120,000 years old." Seems flimsy.