2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Later prehistory: farming and pastoralism in tropical Africa and Ancient Egypt
The most important thing to understand about the science of evolutionary theory is that it is constantly evolving in the light of new evidence and the reinterpretation of old evidence. But one thing that has stood the test of time is the conclusion that Africa was the continent in which early forms of humans and fully modern humans, with brains just like ours, first evolved. And it was from Africa that they finally spread to inhabit the rest of the world.