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Old December 12th, 2010 #9
Ted Denny Aylmer
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Originally Posted by Fred Streed View Post
They might act like apes in a lot of ways but the truth is that even though Humans, negroes, and apes had a common ancestor somewhere in the past we have ALL evolved away from that common primate ancestor into what we are now.
Not if you believe in the multi-regional model of evolution.

Many Racialists (like Carleton Coon) have embraced this:

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Carleton Coon believed that each of the five races followed a separate evolutionary path for tens of thousands of years. He believed, "The earliest Homo sapiens known, as represented by several examples from Europe and Africa, was an ancestral long-headed white man of short stature and moderately great brain size." Further, he wrote, "The negro group probably evolved parallel to the white strain." (The Races of Europe, Chapter II) Coon hypothesized that modern humans, Homo sapiens, arose five separate times in five separate places from Homo erectus, "as each subspecies, living in its own territory, passed a critical threshold from a more brutal to a more sapient state".

In his 1962 book, The Origin of Races, Coon theorized that some races reached the Homo sapiens stage in evolution before others, resulting in the higher degree of civilization among some races.[11]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleto...regional_model
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