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The NAS's Human Evolution Error

the impossibility of such an assumption, stating:
Uncertainties surrounding the taxon's appearance in Eurasia and
southeast Asia make it impossible to establish accurately the time or
place of origin for H. erectus. Available evidence is insufficient to de-
tect the direction of its geographic dispersal. 20

Discussions of the migration routes of man's ancestors—which is
one of those topics that are the subject of much speculation despite a
lack of evidence—led to the emergence of two main views in the
1980s. One of these, which the NAS maintains, is the hypothesis that
the first human beings emerged in Africa from a single source and
spread from there to the rest of the world. According to the other view,
the first human beings emerged simultaneously in various regions of
the world. Some of these people then encountered each other on their
migratory routes, which led to the emergence of a new species by in-

termixing.
Since both of these hypotheses are based
not on evidence, but on evolutionist sci-
entists' preconceptions, it is not sur-
prising that no consensus has
emerged. Both hypotheses are rid-

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