The Human Origin Story Doesn't Matter

Back in the 80's, the "Out of Africa" explanation for human origins was heavily promoted. It was a counter narrative to various older explanations of human origins like the bible origin stories of the Nephilim, the flood and Noah. The Out of Africa story contends in 50,000 years give or take a 10's of thousands, humans spread across the globe and transformed from black africans into all the races.

Another theory is basically the opposite of the out of africa theory, which is really a version of the nephilim story, that some ancient race of humans dispersed around the globe and intermixed with local hominids like neanderthals or the denisovans.

It's interesting that humanity has no memory of its ancient past. One of the main, persistent reasons is politics severely distorts history to the point that it's totally detached from anything that really happened. Even recent history, just going back a few decades is wildly distorted. The historical accounts of the classical world are probably almost totally useless, and that was "recent" compared to the ice ages.

Nature muddles through. Human beings and civilization really do the same. It's actually counter-intuitive and odd that we even have a concept of doing something different and that, and there's somehow an ideal we're falling short of. It seems like that's the source of lies and distortion--it's Pandora's box.