usmbguest5318
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My comment had nothing to do with who was better. It was correcting the intentionally misleading information in the OP. All I did was post the fact that homo sapiens first arose in Africa. How is that making it a contest?My comment was directed at both of you. It is not a contest as to which 'race' is better. The concept of race is a subjective, social, man made one, not a scientific, objective one. Scientists, hypothetically, are not interested in proving the superiority of one race over another but just in learning the truth. That we have believed and may still believe humans began on the African continent does not equate somehow to a superiority of a race because the concept of race is so specious. Making racial superiority, either of you, the issue is foolish and limiting.I disagree. The link is worded in a way to fool the ignorant into claiming homo sapiens sapiens begin in europe. My link is way more scientific. How can europe be "the birthplace of mankind" if homo sapiens arose first in Africa?It's not a contest. It's discovering history. That's all.
correcting the intentionally misleading information in the OP
What's misleading in the OP? At best, I'd say that the classification of the Graecopithecus as European, with its attendant implication that the creature is indigenous to that region -- researchers do not yet know whether Graecopithecus originated in Europe or elsewhere -- is a bit of an exaggeration, but I think the OP also reigns in that bit of hyperbole with the statement "it was found in Europe." Short of that, I don't see anything misleading in the OP.