According to Peter Klevius, the cradle of humans (like of most s.c. "African animals") was the volatile tropical SE Asian archipelago. Small Homos spread during low sea level via mainland tropics, while others got bigger in the cooler but fat and protein rich north. This formula explains the "puzzling mess" of hybrids and phenotypes.
Today we (HSS) are all one remaining species because the big skulled "mongoloid" (cold adapted) flat faces spread and mixed all over.
The world's tallest healthy man Väinö Myllyrinne moving around with ease.
Peter Klevius and Svante Pääbo agree: There was a significant boost in modern human (HSS) intelligence.
According to Peter Klevius, this was due to the latest brain shrinking during high sea level that forced some humans back into the jungle, where the evolutionary pressure again favoured better packed neuronal circuits. When this latest brain update during low sea level entered mainland Asia, it became more pronounced in the big skulled northern "mongoloids", which then took over the world resulting in the (vanishing*) phenotype pattern we still see today. Following the Mekong river HSS was in northern Laos at least 86,000 BP.
* The small get bigger and the big get smaller on average. However, although Peter Klevius is average global height (but sons well over average) - thanks to a back mutation in his 1/3 Sami mother - his crania is much larger than average, even in Europe.
Papuan and Australian HSS negritos got extinct because of waves of bigger HSS.
The fossil of the 106 cm Homo floresiensis woman (left) found on Flores in SE Asia, consists of an almost intact skeleton belonging to a single individual. Ribs from other H. floresiensis were found in the same cave but not used to "improve" the original. However, the similar sized ape* fossil called Lucy (right) from NE Africa consists of random bones collected in different locations over a year (incl, some Baboon ribs).
* Bipedal apes have been around for at least 12 millions years without getting a more human like brain before around two million years.
If some of the Roonka burials are close to 7,000 years in age this suggests that the post-Pleistocene reduction in body size and robusticity in south-eastern Australia (Brown 1989, 1992) occurred between 10,000 and 7,000 years BP.
The oldest and most sophisticated HSS art and tools are found in SE Asia (Sulavesi) and Siberia.
The "pan-African" model with multiple speciations and "raftings" is just hilarious! What stopped access to the Afro-Eurasian continent for the most advanced Homos - and why would they fail where H. erectus made it to China more than 2 MA?! And why would s.c. "African animals" (giraffes, antelopes etc.) evolve in the opposite direction to humans?
And geneticists must understand that archaic mutations in moderns lack "GPS". According to Peter Klevius, we (HSS) clearly originated in SE Asian volatile archipelago to the beat of accelerating climate oscillations in Pleistocene, and are now alone after the latest brain update made us fill the Earth and genetically consume the rest - so e.g., together we've ~50% of the Neanderthal genome - and a chin resulting from less protrusion.
The out of Africa PC pseudoscience has no valid ground. According to Peter Klevius, the Afro-Eurasian continent lacked enough isolation of its potential "Mitochondrial Eves" for successful Homo speciation - only hybridization. And oldest DNA mutations in modern African HSS ("mongoloid", i.e. genetic cold adaptation traits in Khoisan) disprove an African origin.
The recent s.c. Bantu expansion hybridized the intruding Eurasians to look "African", and archaic Pygmies to become modern HSS - however, their Ebola resistance wasn't always transfered.
Moreover, the most important "missing link", the Homo floresiensis woman (with an advanced Homo head and advanced Australopithecine body) didn't "raft" to Flores but evolved in SE Asia and got stuck on the "wrong" side of the Wallace line.
The burial of evolutionary science.
Out of Africa is now really about US boosted racism - spiced with "monotheistic" anti-Atheism - , i.e. against East Asians. It emerged after the long lasting Piltdown hoax eventually punctured British Eurocentrism. And in the 1990s - at a time of increased anti-East Asian racism due to Japanese tech challenging US and EU - phylogenetics etc. were eagerly altered to fit "out of Africa" models and later usually disproved in silence. Only Homo still clings on without any reason to do so. And Cambridge still warns prospective students that focus ought to be on Africa.
In this headwind it took some 20 years for Chris Beard to get Eosimias from China and Myanmar to be accepted as earliest Anthropoid fossils. The PC racist out of Africa and anti-Asia community's subversive campaign is widely known but sadly little talked about.
Africa is a genetic and fossil dump that puzzles everyone who thinks it's not.
The "puzzling" variety in space and time of hard to fit overlapping fossil species and hybrids, incl. later bipedal apes which were in Eurasia at least 12 MA, i.e. long before Sahelanthropus in northern African Mediterranean river environment, but after climate cooling only survived in more tropical environment. And of course there are Australopithecine fossils all over South Asia yet to be found.
Modern H. sapiens (HSS - i.e. definitely not Jebel Irhoud) have globular skulls. The oldest are from outside Africa, e.g. Apidima 1 in Greece which dates to more than 210,000 BP. However, this globularity may be traced back at least a million years because H. floresiensis also possessed it with additional modern feaures together with Australopithecine like post-cranial ones.
As Peter Klevius has written since 2012, Homo could only have evolved on the SE Asian tropical archipelago with fluctuating landbridges due to increased sea level oscillations. The back and forth from savannah to jungle honed a better CPU without increasing the size. And every time a new species landed on mainland Asia, the small skulled dark skinned tropical ones continued along tropics while others went to the fat and protein rich north and got bigger unrestricted brains and "mongolized" (cold adapted) faces. This latter observation Peter Klevius wrote about 1992 in his book Resursbegär (Demand for Resources) when comparing the big skulled Jinniushan fossil from northern China with similarly "mongolized" (cold adapted) faces of Khoisan people in southern Africa - and asked why he (now classified as the largest female fossil ever found) didn't go to the Moon with a 1400cc brain and 200,000 years time to do so before HSS.
Our ancestor wasn't a clumsy chimp immigrant in Africa but an extinct gibbon like ape in SE Asia.
We have nothing in common with clumsy knuckle-walking chimps, but a lot with monogamous gibbons who are superior brachiators (arm swinging). Their ball-and-socket wrist joints allow them unmatched speed and accuracy when swinging through trees. They are the fastest of all tree-dwelling, nonflying mammals. On the ground, gibbons can walk bipedally because their Achilles tendon morphology is more similar to that of humans than that of any other ape.
How climate change made human evolution possible.
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