Black/White History & Human Evolution

The issue of race and sex turns on an apparently precedent issue, with the former concerned with the anthropological and ethnological origins of the human species and the latter the biological, or pre-anthropological origins. A number of sources have in recent years cited two competing hypotheses to explain human evolution. As Kramer explains,1 the two competing hypotheses are described as the replacement and multiregional (also called regional-continuity)2 evolution. The replacement theory is that modern Homo sapiens emerged first from Africa, from where human beings spread out to populate Egypt, the whole of Europe, and Asia. The multiregional theory is that there were diverse populations of modern human beings evolving in indigenous areas throughout the Old World. The replacement theory is connected to the term "mitochondrial Eve." Thompson describes this theory as asserting that the whole of living human populations derive

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mcision from the earliest time.'"16 Bennett also cites the evidence from Herodotus that the Egyptians were Negroes, as well as an emerging body of Egyptian history that describes ancient Egyptians as "a mixed race which presented the same physical types and color ranges as American Negroes--a people, in short, who would have been forced to sit on the back seats of the busses in Mississippi."17 Yet, says Bennett, "Most scholars deny that the Egyptians were Negroes." Further, he says, perhaps most Egyptian soldiers were Negroes, as well as builders of pyramids, priests, and public officials. Rogers cites, and deplores, scholarly arguments on the historical record against the view that the Egyptians, as well as other founders of great civilizations, were either African or Negroid. Then he adduces observations and interpretations of artistic and historical records of Egypt, Europe, and beyond to assert the African origins of all civilizations on one hand, and the mixing of white and black races from earliest periods of Western civilization on the other. In particular, Rogers inveighs against Nazi scholarship that claimed a Germanic provenance for the founding of Egyptian civilization.18 Along the same lines, Diop explains that the int
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