{"id":8105,"date":"2016-04-21T04:49:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T04:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T08:51:27","slug":"2016-05-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-05-01\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Theory of Human Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>James Hunt<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>May 1, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Humanist Community member James Hunt speaks on the &#8220;Recent Chromosomal Fusion&#8221; theory, and presents his book: &#8220;23, How Humanity Came To Be&#8221;.  Over many years, in many books, there are many suggestions that Africa launched anatomically modern humans, replacing all older species.  Anthropologists say something happened, but there are very few suggestions of what exactly that macro-evolutionary event was.  What evidence is there for macro-evolution in human DNA?  Why did anatomically modern humans all come &#8220;out of Africa&#8221;?  Ernst Mayr wrote that chromosomal fusions have no effect on species, but there is clearly evidence that 23 chromosome humans are drastically less diverse than earlier 24 chromosome species.  Is it time to consider the obvious?  Homo Erectus was a 24!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/165740776\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/165740776\">Humanist Community Forum (2016-05-01): A New Theory of Human Origin (James Hunt)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hunt May 1, 2016 Humanist Community member James Hunt speaks on the &#8220;Recent Chromosomal Fusion&#8221; theory, and presents his book: &#8220;23, How Humanity Came To Be&#8221;. Over many years, in many books, there are many suggestions that Africa launched anatomically modern humans, replacing all older species. Anthropologists say something happened, but there are very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-05-01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Theory of Human Origin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}