In the case "modern man" is an anthropological term meaning "Homo sapiens sapiens: subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races". You are using it in a different sense.
From my point of view modern man is not only in Africa, they could be any where in the world because it is the sense of a man and the society in which he stay's which makes him modern. So it's not sure to find him in Africa.. .................................................... I like your point of view Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! There is some information Science vol 331 p 20 Implying human stationed on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, wile the Sahara was not a desert and they moved into Europa at about 100000 years ago Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
If you want to quote a previous post in your post, click the Quote button in the upper lefthand corner of the post you want to quote. I googled "science vol 331" which turned up 79 million references. There wasn't anything relevant in the first few pages of links. Please include a link to the article or website.
The definition of the modern man can either by based on hardware or software, with hardware more about general biology, while software more connected to consciousness. Maybe an analogy is a farmer in a tuxedo. The tuxedo may create the impression of urban sophistication if we look only on the visual surface. However, a tuxedo will not magically make the mind have sophistication. One needs to use other tests such as which spoon their use for tea. Both definitions are correct in their own way, so it depends on what version of modern man we are talking about about. Modern man received his first tuxedo in Africa over 1M years ago, but didn't know which spoon to use until urban culture appears. I think in terms of both with each having different dates. Relative to evolution and creation, evolution is better with respect to the tuxedo, but the spoon debate is much closer since both use about the same time scale.
Here is a couple of relevant sentences: "Anatomically modern-appearing humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago" "studies of molecular biology give evidence that the approximate time of divergence from the common ancestor of all modern human populations was 200,000 years ago." from this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens
About 12,000 years ago humans, began to change their behavior to include farming, which made these humans more stationary. The important thing about farming is, it implies long term planning, since crops don't come up over night. A group that migrates, can plan shorter term, moving with day to day necessity, like many animals do. But to farm, you can't just follow your urges and whims, but need long term will power. With urban settlements long term planning takes another quantum leap, since now humans also have to deal with unnaturally high population densities and all the logistical problems they need to be addressed. I is very doubtful the behavioral maturity at 50,000 years would have been prepared for all these challenges.
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