Currently, the scientific world considers humans as a species of primates that have existed for about 40 thousand years. All people living now, as it were, are the direct descendants of the Cro-Magnons; in fact, we are Cro-Magnons - one of the branches of the evolution of Homo sapiens.
According to modern concepts, humanity originated in central Africa about 200 thousand years ago. And from there they settled all over the globe. About 130 thousand years ago, the first people came to Ethiopia, about 90 thousand years ago - to Arabia and India.
Further expansion proceeded much faster. So, for example, the south and central regions of Europe were inhabited by people simultaneously with China, about 30 thousand years ago, and the northern regions of Eurasia and the penetration of man into the territory of the Americas happened about 20 thousand years ago.
And all this would be great if not for a few interesting circumstances. One of them is the time of the appearance of the Cro-Magnons. The fact is that at that time (40 thousand years ago) humanity was already significantly "smeared" over the territory of our planet. The ancestors of modern people lived in Asia Minor, and in the north of Africa and in Indochina. Well, and Cro-Magnons, it seems, appeared only in the north of the Arabian Peninsula. It turns out a rather serious discrepancy - if all living people are the ancestors of Cro-Magnons, then how and who settled before their appearance on our planet?
The second point that raises questions is the origin of modern races. Indeed, if all living people have a common ancestor, then it turns out that all existing races began to form no more than 40 thousand years ago.
However, this is practically impossible, since the human genome is not so changeable: 40 thousand years is only one and a half to two thousand generations. It is difficult to imagine how fast evolution has gone to get such a variety from a single ancestor.
But that's not all. There are haplogroups in our genes, the age of which is several tens of thousands of years, but they are absent in Cro-Magnons. This may indicate either that once there was an interspecific crossing of our distant ancestors with different origins, or that the history of our species is much longer than those same 40 thousand years.
And, by the way, the question of interspecific crossing of our distant ancestors should not bother anyone. Within the framework of any existing genus, this is completely permissible and possible. There are people in the modern world who inherited the genes of the Neanderthals. Yes, that's right: among modern mankind there are representatives, from 1 to 4% of whose genes are genes of Neanderthals.
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In short, in the modern scientific world there is still no consensus about our origin. However, the emerging facts are increasingly destroying the modern scientific picture of the world.
It all started in 1967, when during the construction of a school in the south of Ethiopia, interesting bones were found, which were immediately sent for examination to the center of civilization closest to the construction site. The reason for sending was more than serious. Judging by their appearance, these were the bones of a modern man, but their condition indicated that they had lain in the ground not just for a long time, but for an extremely long time.
To accurately establish the age of the find, the bones were sent to the UK, where they were subjected to radiocarbon analysis. The result impressed scientists, the age of the bones was estimated at about 200 thousand years. It was all the more surprising that the ancestors of mankind, at that time, had not even reached the excavation site (located in modern Ethiopia)!
Scientists have postponed the solution of this question, since they did not have a direct answer to whether the Cro-Magnons existed 200 thousand years ago. The find was classified as "controversial artifacts" and was successfully forgotten …
But in 1997, unexpectedly, they had to return to the topic, and moreover in a format that was very inconvenient for the "scientific classics". A group of researchers from California found in the same Ethiopia an absolutely amazing find - the skull of a modern man in excellent condition. And everything would not be interesting if it were not for the age of the find - about 160 thousand years.
After the published results of the study of the skull, all doubts were discarded, and the final conclusion was made: in the northeast of Africa in the period 150-200 thousand years ago, there was a kind of people, like two drops of water, similar to modern ones.
This means that the history of our species is much more ancient than the hypothetical 40 thousand years of the existence of the Cro-Magnon. Such an age of our species perfectly allows us to explain the racial differences and the speed of our dispersal on the planet, and the fact that it was our ancestors who were able to survive in a competitive struggle with other representatives of the Human race.
But then another question arises: where did our distant ancestor come from? How and where did it appear and why did it exist for such a long time in parallel with many other "varieties" of man?
In connection with the latest findings, confirming the rather long history of Homo sapiens, the ancient writings about people who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago are presented in a completely different way. It turns out that the contents of the ancient Indian and Slavic epics, telling about ancient and bygone civilizations, at least, may not be invented.
Surprisingly, the lifetime of the most ancient modern people coincided with the appearance of mitochondrial DNA in our ancestors, transmitted exclusively through the female line. That is, all people living at the present time are descendants of one woman. It is impossible to explain the appearance of this DNA from the point of view of evolution; in any case, people have not yet been found who lived before this period, having something similar.
And this indirectly may mean the appearance of this woman by some unusual, "unnatural" method. For example, as a result of an experiment, well, or an arrival from space. We can say that the absence of these molecules in the body in our distant ancestors is an indirect confirmation of our cosmic origin.
All these discoveries were made relatively recently, no more than 30 years ago. It is possible that these are not all the surprises that modern research methods provide us with. It may be possible to confirm many of the fantastic ideas expressed dozens and even hundreds of years ago. Maybe…
