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If you actually read the scientific American article cited, you can see that the title is click baiting. The only direct statement for the point of the title:
by justicezyx 5y ago
If you actually read the scientific American article cited, you can see that the title is click baiting.
The only direct statement for the point of the title:
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Some Western researchers suggest that there is a hint of nationalism in Chinese palaeontologists' support for continuity. “The Chinese — they do not accept the idea that H. sapiens evolved in Africa,” says one researcher. “They want everything to come from China.”
Chinese researchers reject such allegations. “This has nothing to do with nationalism,” says Wu. It's all about the evidence — the transitional fossils and archaeological artefacts, he says. “Everything points to continuous evolution in China from H. erectus to modern human.”
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And the rest of the article enumerates many evidences that prove the evidences uncovered in China and many other Asian countries pose a lot of questions of the established theory.
I don't think it's fair to put nationalism at the center of the discussion.
Edit: I would not expected down voting on this comment if this was in before 2016 (just rough impression). Now I fully prepared to it. The lack of inter exchange is killing the vitality of this forum. Hope this idea becomes more evident here. After all, there are so many pther places to not engage in serious discussion, this forum is most valuable when it predominantly values facts.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoNo, the nationalism is a real issue, though it's not a majority view among Chinese researchers. What Wu claims above is directly and unambiguously contradicted by genetic evidence. Han are overwhelmingly O-M122 (sometimes written as O2 or O3) which absolutely goes back to the common African ancestor. You can look up the lineage yourself on the wikipage for haplogroups. What's true is they're a fairly recent split off the "spine" This is a settled matter, not one where HN is somehow censoring evidence based debate. The argument is fundamentally dishonest vs the evidence in total. Edit: Just to follow up with more useful information: What we are learning that's overturning some conventional views from recent digs in India and across Asia is about how technology/culture diffused amongst modern humans once they were resigning there. We're finding it was more of a web than a linear diffusion as previously thought. But that's all, again, among modern humans, not evidence of independent evolution of the Han people from homo erectus.
- justicezyx 5y ago> No, the nationalism is a real issue Sure, totally agree. I was pointing out it's not fair to pick this issue for this particular new discovery.
- pcdoodle 5y agoScience is never settled. That's how science do.