Africa : Renown white man says our genes are African

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Paleontologist: Each of us carries genes that are African in origin

February 13, 2007 - Posted at 11:55 p.m.
BY BJ LEWIS-Victoria Advocate

Donald Johanson, nationally renown paleontologist mentioned in his opening lecture remarks how timely his discussion was. How appropriate, his lecture, Out of Africa, be given during Black History month. The evidence is irrefutable, he said.

“No matter where we grasp one of the branches of the family true, the roots all lead back to Africa.”


Johanson presented evidence about the origins of man in his many trips in Africa. Johanson presented the same sort of lecture 15 years ago at VC, but he said recent findings made Out of Africa a vastly different presentation than his first.

“(I have been) working in Africa for close to 36 years now to pursue my life long desire to try to understand the origins,” Johanson said. “I’m looking for the scientific evidence, the fossilized remains that tell us something about our past, about how we fit into the natural world. About how, over the millennium of time, which Charles Darwin articulated as natural selection has crafted human beings to be arguably the most impressive and influential species on the planet today.”

Johanson said it has been a remarkable quest that has delivered into his hands some of the important fossils.

Among the fossils he has worked with Lucy, which remains one of the most important discoveries; the relationships between humans and chimps; Darwin’s ideas and discoveries from others in his field over the years. He touched on different species that branched off from Lucy and discussed why those species went away leaving homo sapiens.

Johanson even revealed how Lucy, at one time the oldest human remains discovered in Africa in 1974, got her name from a girlfriend’s suggestion while on the expedition.

“It was a name that stuck, it is the name all of us know, it is the name that refers to a human ancestor that has become a real benchmark by which we judge all other discoveries,” Johanson said.

On evolution from ape to man, Johanson echoed sentiments by Darwin in that one does not just flip a switch and walk on all fours.

“Not everything changes at the same time. We are still undergoing evolutionary change which is still very much abbreviated because of culture,” Johanson said. “We are still not upright walking people. How many of us suffer from lower back pain or hernias, that was never really perfected, you don’t have to be perfect. What Darwin said there is a series of changes.”

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Johanson ended his lecture with news of the latest discovery in Africa - Lucy’s baby. In late 2000 the remains of an early human ancestor - a 3.3 million year old baby skeleton- were found in the Dikika, Ethiopia.

The skeleton is even more complete than Lucy and 100,000 years older. He said it is a revolutionary discovery that will further bridge gaps in the evolution of man
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“There is always something new out of Africa,”
Johanson said. “Africa has an enormous amount to teach us. Where we come from and most importantly it teaches us that we have a common beginning. Every single one of us in this room is an African.”

He said every person carries in their genes, the most primitive genes, not the chromosomes, are African. Johanson said they can be traced back to populations back in Africa that are found more anciently then anywhere else in the world.

“So the differences the separate us that divide us up into various categories are really only skin deep, they are artificially socially constructed differences that have no biological meeting,” Johanson said. “We have a common beginning, common origin, and I hope we will embrace that knowledge, come together as a species and make the right choices for our descendents hopefully that will survive and look back on their ancestors.”

KINDA TRICKY AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE SAID WE ARE ALL AFRICAN...

But he said the GENES are AFRICAN

Oh well.
 

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