In 2005,
DNA testing proved that the first inhabitants of China were black Africans. The
study was conducted by a Chinese DNA specialist named Jin Li and a team of
Chinese and other scientists. Li admits that he wasn’t trying to prove this
fact, instead he initially wanted to prove that the Chinese evolved from hοmo
erectus independently of all humans. After collecting more than 12000 DNA
samples from 165 different ethnic groups, Li and his team found that early
humans belonged to different species but modern humans had descended from the
East African species.
One
scientist on the team, Li Hui, said that 100,000 years ago humans began
migrating through South and Southeast Asia into China from Africa. Their
testing showed that 65 branches of Chinese all carry similar DNA mutations as
the people of Southeast Asia.
Another
scientist on the team, Jin Li had this to say about their findings, “we did not
see even one single individual that could be considered as a descendant of the
hοmo erectus in China, rather, everybody was a descendant of our ancestors from
Africa.”
When
asked how he felt about these findings, he responded, “after I saw the evidence
generated in my laboratory. I think we should all be happy with that. Because
after all, modern humans from different parts of the world are not so different
from each other and we are very close relatives.”
The team
of scientists participating in the 5 year study of geographic and genealogical
routes tracing the spread of settlements of ancient and modern humans were from
China, Russia, India, Brazil and other nations.
Richard
Leaky, a well-known, Kenyan-born Paleoanthropologist who has dedicated his life
to studying fossils and the past believes that we must study the past if we are
to have a future. He had this to say, “If you get to the stage where you can
persuade people on the evidence, that it’s solid, that we are all African, that
color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive,
then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global
challenges.”
Wow,
so it appears that Africa truly is the cradle of all civilization after all.

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