"Originally posted by FreeThinker Where did Man descend from , if he did n't descend from Monkey ?"
"There are two major theories , many hold to the `` Out of Africa `` replacement model . The perspective of the Out of Africa model ( often called Out of Africa II , referring to a second migration from Africa of a hominid population ) adherents is that when there was a migration of H. erectus out of Africa into Asia and Europe , these populations ( seen in materials like the Chinese and Indonesian erectus ) did not contribute a significant amount of genetic material to later populations that led to modern humans ( some claim no genetic ancestry to these groups and their descendants at all , a `` strict `` replacement model ) . At approximately 200 kya there was a second migration of hominids out of Africa . This time it was fully modern H. sapiens , which proceeded to replace whatever populations that then occupied Asia and Europe . Some see direct competition and extermination of the native populations , some see passive replacement due to better adaptive strategies , and some see genetic admixture with the preponderance of genetic material coming from the incoming human populations , eventually replacing and assimilating them into the greater collective . In this view there is a specific speciation event that occurred which led to the origin of H. sapiens in Africa , and this population is the forerunner of modern humans , leaving the European Neanderthals , Chinese erectus , and others out in the cold . Homo Sapiens"
"Originally posted by FreeThinker Where did Man descend from"
"The perspective of the Out of Africa model ( often called Out of Africa II , referring to a second migration from Africa of a hominid population ) adherents is that when there was a migration of"