If evolution is progressive and the first humans were from Africa, what is the unarticulated assumption about the European and the African? The Neanderthal Man was the first homo sapien (or, thinking man). Interestingly he was discovered in the Neander Valley in Germany. His African predecessors (homo habilis and homo erectus) were nit wits. 19th Germany, Britain and France were in a race to prove that intelligent humans came from their respective soils. Ernst Haeckel, prominent (and extremely influential) 19th German century naturalist promulgated evolutionary theory that “provided scientific support for the particularly virulent racism that infected some strands of […]