Treating "science as science" means never having to say you're sorry
In science, it is often said that theories can never be proved, only disproved. But over the course of the last twenty years, "Out of Africa" has risen from the ranks of "theory" to "undisputable truth" in the public conscious. The reason is that "Out of Africa" was embraced and widely disseminated by those who wanted it to be true because it supported their own political objectives. "Out of Africa" holds that Homo sapiens developed in Africa and over time, migrated across the world to colonize it. However, a study conducted by Spain's national research center on human evolution suggests that "Out of Africa" may be flawed.
The study states that:
"the continuity of the Eurasian dental pattern from the Early Pleistocene until the appearance of Upper Pleistocene Neanderthals suggests that the evolutionary courses of the Eurasian and African continents were relatively independent for a long period.""The history of human populations in Eurasia may not have been the result of a few high-impact replacement waves of dispersals from Africa, but a much more complex puzzle of dispersals and contacts among populations within and outside continents."
"In the light of these results, we propose that Asia has played an important role in the colonization of Europe, and that future studies on this issue are obliged to pay serious attention to the 'unknown' continent."(more)
"Out of Africa" first gained favor within the science community after studies of mitochondrial DNA showed a clearer picture concerning the timetable of Homo sapien development. The studies also showed humanity to be interlinked through the same "mitochondrial Eve." Already, key archeological finds in Africa and a lack of such discoveries elsewhere suggested that the "Out of Africa" hypothesis was applicable. But where scientists saw the DNA studies as complementary evidence, certain people saw a nail in the coffin of those who supported other development theories - and saw this simply because they wanted their theory to be true.
However, the theory of early Eurasian dispersal from Africa and further development outside of the continent, as the recent Spain study suggests, is equally problematic for multiculturalists. Like the Candelabra theory, this theory loses the oneness with Africa that "Out of Africa" conjures. It leaves the multiculturalists' agenda to be seen as less of a reconnecting of "like peoples" and more of a deceitful gimmick to advance certain political interests, which it is. There are many people who want "Out of Africa" to be true and give it practically unending publicity because the theory also supports their ideology.
Smithsonian was the latest to join the three-ring circus. In the article "The Family Tree, Pruned," Richard Conniff argues that genealogy is bunk and race does not matter because we humans all came from Africa anyhow. " Our genealogy is identical," he writes.[1]
A belief in "Out of Africa" figures prominently in Conniff's assessment. If there were separate evolutionary paths after the migrations from Africa, and thus a greater disparity between the races, "identical genealogy" would be insignificant considering that, according to the common origin theory, all life forms evolved from the same organism/gene pool and there is a common root for every life form on the planet. To nobody's surprise, Conniff is not running around advertising this sort of "genealogy" and saying we are all eels, tigers and elephants; his focus is Homo sapiens and his tone resembles a very intentional advancement of leftist internationalism and social marxism.
Kevin Shillington is another example of politically-charged "Out of Africa" promotion. In History of Africa, Shillington writes:
"Final evolution of modern human beings, with average brain capacity of about 1450 cc, was clearly complete by 40, 000 Bc. Originating in Africa they had spread to all major regions of the world by 10, 000 BC.
...as [modern human beings] spread throughout Africa and colonised the other continents of the world, they adapted to variations in climate and environment. Those in the heart of tropical Africa developed the darkest skin to protect them from the harmful rays of the direct tropical sun. Those moving to cooler climates developed paler skins in order to absorb more of the beneficial rays of the less direct sunlight. The so-called 'racial differences' between the various peoples of the world are thus literally only skin-deep, local adaptations to climate and environment..."[2]
It is interesting that Shillington writes "thus skin deep" as if he has actually proved something, which is what "thus" is used in the English language to indicate. In actuality, Shillington dedicated a mere three sentences to the matter of racial differences, all which elaborate on the reasons for skin color change; there is no promotion or refutation of the other racial differences, he just ignores them, implying that they are immaterial just because "Out of Africa" says so. Aside from considerations that stem from the highly controversial notion of a disparity in cognitive ability, Shillington skips over phenotypic diversities such as cranial types, as well as differences in bone density and chemical concentration. The fact that the differences between the races are not as dramatic as say, the differences between Homo erectus and Homo sapien hominids, is no excuse as to why any race should see its deliberate destruction through a so-called "promotion of diversity" behind the illusion of building one humanity.
[1] Richard Conniff, "The Family Tree, Pruned," Smithsonian, July 2007, 90-97.
[2] Kevin Shillington, History of Africa Revised Edition (Malaysia: MacMillan Publishers Limited, 1995), 6.


