Article: News and Views; A Dramatic Boost to the Theory That Modern Humans Evolved in Africa

The scientific racists of the past and present have invariably taken the position that black people are not only a breed apart but also genetically inferior to whites in intelligence and in other human characteristics. Accordingly, racist ideology has always put its efforts behind constructing archaeological evidence that Negroes were a subspecies of human beings who developed geographically apart and along completely different anthropological lines than whites.

It is generally agreed among anthropologists that Homo sapiens' original ancestor Homo erectus developed in Africa about 2 million years ago. Even the scientific racists concede this point. It is also widely accepted that Homo ...

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