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Our Human origins
By Mongi Bellili
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• Introduction
• Opinion of the mainstream
• The opposing opinion
Introduction
• Ambiguity of our history and longstanding
debate
• Terminology: Geology, Archeology, Morphology,
Paleontology, Genetics.
• The Stone-Bronze-Iron Ages
• Ancient- middle ages- modern
Opinion of the mainstream
• Homo habilis 2.4 million to 1.4 million.
• Homo erectus 1.8 million to 300,000.
• Neanderthals 250,000 to 30,000.
• Home sapiens, appeared 200,000 years ago.
Opinion of the mainstream• Morphological evidence: similar body parts
• Archeological evidence: human-like remains
• Genetic evidence:
Opinion of the mainstream
• Multiregional hypothesis:
• Out of Africa hypothesis:
Opinion of the mainstream
The opposing opinion
• Forbidden discoveries:
Human artifacts in Mexico (250 thousands).
Human foot prints as old as 100 million years.
• DNA findings showed that other species were
unlikely to have contributed to the modern
human genome.
• They are different species that had gone
extinct.
The opposing opinion
Content
• Introduction
• Opinion of the mainstream
• The opposing opinion
Conclusion
• Curiosity of the human being.
• Show misuse of science.
• Coexistence of religion and science.
• Still a lot to discover : more Q? than answers.