essure put on resources and social harmony. Different groupsmigrated out to find less competition over food, water, and space. Overall this article has an East vs. West theme, Chinese vs. the Westerners. Who’s to say who’sright or wrong? Here are fossils of great geological age and importance that have been used to back up twodifferent theories on the beginnings of the genus Homo. Both are plausible, but one is more widelyaccepted and a more evidence supported than the other. The authors could be racist and want the Chineseto look ridiculous in front of the world, leaning for a Western explanation to be the correct one. The articleportrays a theme of right versus wrong, white versus Asian. Or is it just circumstantial that all the Chineseanthropologists agree with the “Asian Hypothesis” and unlike the Westerners who are divided among the“multiregional” and “out of Africa” hypotheses? This article has made gross generalizations that are notentirely supported with evidence. Ciochon and Larick demean the Chinese because they have foundevidence that could support what some of them believe to be their roots, or beginnings. I applaud theChinese scientists for challenging theories, the way truth is found in science. They have fossils from a veryearly date that are not corresponding to past records and the lineage of movement of H. erectus. East Asiaholds hidden information in its untouched land about our ancestral past and the West should not shunideas that could one day be supported indefinitely by these new fossil findings. Park, Michael A. Biological Anthropology/An Introductory Reader. Mayfield Pub. Co.: Toronto,1999/2000.Purves, William K, et al. Life: The Science of Biology. Sinauer Assoc.: Sunderland, 1998. ...
