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To: tejek who wrote (248327)	10/12/2005 6:47:46 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1584578

"The majority view (and my personal view) is that homo sapiens also evolved in Africa and then spread out to Europe and Asia, then later to the Pacific Islands and North and South America." I was trying to understand why that's true. From what I've read, I think things like mutations may develop faster in Africa maybe because of the climate and the biological diversity. I see. I'm not really sure why it would be true. Could just be a coincidence that the more advanced species evolved in the same place that their earlier relatives evolved. Could be that they had been there longer and had more chance time to evolve, perhaps there where also more hominids around in Africa to evolve. Also Africa certainly does have a lot of climate diversity, and possibly does have now (and maybe did have then) more biological diversity then many other locations. (Maybe not when compared to Asia but I'm not sure that all of Asia was very populated, even by the standards of the time, back then.) Tim