Aww thanks. There are lots of intertwining and cultural pressures and sub species isolation as well, but those are more recent and less overall impact full as the big picture movements and breeding.
The single common ancestor theory is all that you hear now. Did these groups (minus homosapiens) appear around the same time? Or do they follow the pattern of increased complexity over time? Were there ever advanced societies within those groups before intermingling, as described in myths/stories like Lemuria or Hyperborea?
So, there are several theories about that. The "first wave" out of Africa is the most popular. Thays what academic studies are based on.
Graecopithicus really fucks up that theory. So do many other "anomoly" finds. There really is no consensus. If you'd like my opinion I will gladly share.
I believe the origins of the modern human are much older than we understand, because I believe it started in the Mediterranean basin. There were other primates who were isolated and adapted in many parts of the world into unique and possibly fairly advanced species. The stories of giants and dwarves and such are probably based on these very ancient species who eventually died out because the environments they had adapted to changed. But us, as we understand, started 6 to 12 million users ago in the Mediterranean basin when the Gibraltar passage was blocked by a land plug.
The Mediterranean basin would have been a garden of eden. Below sea level so protected from crazy natural disasters and inclement weather, fertile, lush, and secure. A perfect environment for a species to develop. When the lad plug caved in and the Atlantic flooded the basin 5 million years ago, only stragglers and small isolated pockets of that protohuman survived, the ones who lived near the edge. They were dispersed through southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Levant. These isolated pockets began growing and developing and responding to their unique environmental pressures, slowly changing over time. That is my hypothesis.
If you'd like my opinion I will gladly share.
Yes, the subject is fascinating but who is there to discuss it with?
6-12 million years ago in the Mediterranean basin
I agree that there's evidence of a people with common ancestors living on the western coasts of Europe and Africa, their homeland was likely somewhere to the West. But I get tripped up on the timelines and sorting through disinformation, especially when you factor in the Americas.
We have stone and giant earthwork builders in the British Isles, Canary Islands and elsewhere. But they're also all across the US. The Cahokia mounds in IL are the largest but those mounds extend down into FL. TPTB call them "midden mounds" in the south and say they were just old trash piles but some of the mounds are massive and oriented towards the water, there's an elipses near Cedar Key that's the size of a football field and almost 20 feet tall.
Clovis points are found all over the US but also in France from ~17,000 years ago (they say). Then there's the curious case of the Windover mummies, also in FL who were supposedly blonde, 7-10k years old, and placed in such a way as to all face east (towards Atlantic).
I suspect there was a landmass for these people's shared ancestor somewhere in or near the Atlantic that had a cataclysm, the seafaring people escaped and travelled outwardly in a ring and brought their stone and earthwork traditions with them. As their culture was lost to time, the technologies were also lost in the case if the Americas or further developed as seen in Europe/ME/North Africa
Plato described the landmass as told to him by the Egyptian elites, but that doesn't give us a good timeline. Rudolph Steiner also wrote about it but he was a theosophist and received his information from trance and the likes of other occultists and the mind is easily deceived.
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