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fjabre | 3 years ago

“They live in the African savannah, which is where humankind first evolved”

We have some evidence to suggest that early humans were there but it is a huge assumption and leap of faith to make a statement like this with certainty. This statement is more likely a religious statement than one a good scientist would make.

A good scientist would not make such a bold assumption without putting it in quotes or a star next to it. You cannot make this statement definitively.

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hactually|3 years ago

As far as I was aware, this is established fact. Do you have any counter arguments that myself and the OP may have missed?

fjabre|3 years ago

Do you believe it is in fact established? Science discovers new ‘facts’ all the time. To say definitively that humans first evolved here in the context of a 4 billion year old planet seems irresponsible at best.