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Connecting the Dots on Humanity’s Untold Genetic History

Monday, September 1, 2014 17:31

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By Steven & Evan Strong

Contributing Writers for Wake Up World

The ideas that form the basis of this article have admittedly sat at the bottom of our ‘to do list’ for well over a year. Even though more than 30 articles have come and gone in the meantime, about sites of varying credentials, the ‘bones’ of this article have steadfastly clung on, albeit hanging onto second last position on the ladder of urgency.

More than once I have contemplated putting a line through the caption and seeking out more promising or pressing Original sites or relics to pursue. But with over half a dozen avenues of investigation currently underway or incomplete, these ideas – which relate to the untold history and evolution of humanity- can now finally appear in print.

Even though we will stray into the cosmic realm during this examination, we will also maintain our commitment to academic rigour and applying methodology of the finest selection. To that end we will be citing references as varied as world renowned experts in the fields of mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomes, the words of Original Elders, Original Dreaming stories, “hobbits”, and the telepathic thoughts of the alien held captive at Roswell for three years.

About 400,000 Years ago

To begin with, we need to set a solid empirical base, so we will briefly revisit some earlier research. We have made mention in previous articles of the individual work of Professors Alan Wilson and Rebecca Cann, who first proposed Africa as the birthplace of modern humans, as well as their subsequent retraction that nominated Australia, not Africa, as humanity’s beginning place.

Their examination of Original genes motivated Wilson to finally concede that:

“…it seems too far out to admit, but while Homo erectus was muddling along in the rest of the world, a few erectus had got to Australia and did something dramatically different – not even with stone tools – but it was there that Homo sapiens emerged and evolved.”

Wilson discovered that “the Australian racial group has a much higher rate of mutations than any other racial group”, and that the Original Homo sapien sapiens first emerged “about 400,000 years ago”. We have no problem with his conclusions, but do take exception to the open-ended nature of the process that he proposed led to the genesis of modern humans in Australia.

How did the evolution and transformation of Homo erectus take place? What factors, agents and agencies were responsible? And why did this occur in a continent supposedly lacking in any hominid presence until the appearance of African Homo sapien sapiens?

When Rebecca Cann delved more deeply into the most recent genetic studies of indigenous people, she not only nominated a 400,000 year entry point to Australia for the Original people, but went forward a considerable distance along that time-line to determine a beginning date for “Negroid and Caucasian groups [of] about 40,000 years ago”. But what really added to the intrigue was Cann’s observation that the Original people “arose … from two distinct lineages” – a fact that was identified by both male and female genetic signposts. In their outline of the two possible candidates, both Wilson and Cann broke the rules of ‘accepted academia’ by suggesting that Homo erectus somehow sailed to Australia, despite knowing full well the prevailing belief is that only Homo sapiens could sail across the oceans to other continents. According to Wilson and Cann, the genetic evidence negates this common assumption.

Further more, what is not as well known is yet another inconvenient archaeological truth, which details the movement of no less than 20 hominids across 23 kilometres of open-ocean to the island of Flores more than 800,000 years ago. According to Dr. Michael Morwood, well known for his work in the discovery of the small species of hominid called ‘hobbits’, he noted the existence of “evidence that some 800,000 years agoHomo erectus - our upright but smaller-brained ancestor – had reached the island of Flores”.

Morwood was aware of the sensational nature of what he found, but remained confident in the integrity of the science and numbers behind his claims. “The dating is reliable. Volcanic tuff deposits from above and below indisputable stone artefacts and associated extinct fauna were securely dated by the well-tried and trusted fission-track method”. Accepting that this is indeed evidence of Homo erectus, not Homo sapien, activity, we can conclude that, if Homo erectus did indeed sail south towards Flores and continued in that direction, they would reach Timor and then the Australian mainland. And the leap in technology required of this migration is minimal; if already capable of constructing a vessel carrying many and sailing a long way around 800,000 years ago, it is quite feasible that Homo erectus sailed similar numbers a little further south another 400,000 years later.