re: Are we all Africans?

I guess this is a thing. Yrs ago my brother ripped into my nieces (black) teacher for trying to push this bs.

African Japanese more so

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I'm not sure either, or why people have run with Graecopithecus the way they have. It's supremely odd. The evidence for the out-of-Africa hypothesis is so overwhelming that I'm amazed this thread got this far with people spewing such ignorant ideas. I honestly don't understand it.

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The ultimate authority on the origins of humanity is the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Svante Pääbo is the lead paleogeneticist and his remarkable research firmly places humanity's origin in Africa.

Have you read Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes? I want to pick it up soon.

I'll stick with my Ashkenazi Jew

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You don’t think that discovery had any merit?

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Graecopithecus? It had a lot of merit, but the discovery consisted of two papers. The first was the paper that mentioned the discovery of Graecopithecus fossils in the Thracian basin in Greece and a tooth in Bulgaria, and contends that it is the earliest hominin (as in human and non-ape ancestors, distinct from hominid, which includes apes and humans). The fortune the researchers had is that the tooth from Bulgaria was the fourth premolar, which had been used to make distinctions between other hominin lineages, which the second group of researchers used. They used that tooth to show that Graecopithecus was distinct from hominids and proposed that it was a hominin, among the earliest found, and a fossil distinct from Ouranopithecus, which was found in Northern Greece, and for whom the fossil record is more robust. There is some debate about whether Ouranopithecus is a hominin too. But researchers are modest in their claims, suggesting because of the dental root structure reconstructed from the fourth premolar, that hominin status cannot be ruled out as of yet. This is because the reconstructed root is distinct from the Pan genus, but distinct enough from other nearby species, such as Ouranopithecus, that it be considered a distinct species within the hominin group of possible human ancestors. Or rather, the group of hominids that branched out to form hominins, a group which contains humans.

There is no direct relationship, though, between Graecopithecus and anatomically modern humans, and the geography of the Late Miocene means that Gracecopithecus could easily have been present in Africa as well. The second set of researchers did show that the radial enamel thickness of the fossil found was within the mean values of Homo sapiens, but the sample size is far too small to make a definitive link. Not only this we are fairly sure where the Homo genus originated, which is distinct from other hominin lines, from what we know so far, and the site of that origination remains Africa. And for the purposes of human evolution, Africa remains the most likely site of Homo sapien sapien development.

I didn't write that summary well. Sorry for the confusion.

TLDR: The first paper proposed a species distinct from hominids, the second paper used dental reconstruction to show the species was indeed distinct from Pan genus and from the fossil records of other species found in the region, suggesting that hominin status cannot be ruled out. That status will depend entirely on the fossil record.

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thought it was this:

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You missed the first 200,000 years of human evolution. Answer to OP's question, yes.

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But this is all in the same region. Italy and Greece are just north of Africa and the Persian Gulf separates Egypt and Iran.

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Are you really, really suggesting that sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean are the same thing?

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Yes, you think I have no idea what I am talking about.

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You make it painfully obvious with every post that you are indeed the dumbest poster, by far, on this site.

ETA: obviously you can read, but there is some misfire in your brain that prevents intelligent comprehension.
No one is arguing Jesus was some aryan. That’s cultural. But you make these idiotic leaps that have zero to do with the topic at hand. All the time.

You are a moron, in the very specific definition.

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No one is arguing Jesus was some aryan. That’s cultural. But you make these idiotic leaps that have zero to do with the topic at hand. All the time.

You are a moron, in the very specific definition.

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I am not a moron just because you can't understand my point.

It is pointless arguing with you. You are not able to look beyond your perception of the world. You think everyone has an agenda if they are teaching something you don't think is right.

By the way, where did you see that presented in which the teacher told her students blacks were building pyramids while whitey was living in caves? Exactly how did she present this?

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The world was built on conquest and subjugation. We stand on the shoulders of rapers and reavers, killers and thieves.

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You've got it backwards my friend.
The world worth living in was built on cooperation and liberty.

We stand on the shoulders of freedom fighters, innovators, and diplomats.