Neanderthals, Early Humans, & the Origin of Whites

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Richard D. Fuerle
Erectus Walks Amongst Us
New York: Spooner Press, 2008

Richard Fuerle (1941 – 2018), was a man with an extremely active mind. He was a Pennsylvanian and a lawyer who continuously sought out further education and learning. One such field of study was the science behind the evolution of humanity and how evolution applied to the here and now. In 2008, he published Erectus Walks Amongst Us in both book form and in an interactive internet format which has since been reproduced on The Unz Review website. The book is an entertaining and informative look at human evolution and racial reality.

Fuerle rejects the Out of Africa theory of human origins. Out of Africa posits that humanity arose in Africa and migrated out of there, as fully modern humans, some 65,000 years ago. After leaving Africa, the different races arose, therefore the races are closely related evolutionarily speaking. Fuerle counters this, arguing that modern humans arose as separate races in Eurasia much earlier.

By the logic of Fuerle’s view, the evolutionary upstream ancestor of man, the Eurasian ape, started to walk upright ten million years ago. Walking upright gave the Eurasian great apes the ability to carry tools with their hands and see further by being taller than other animals. The use of tools meant that more food could be acquired which supported a larger brain. Eventually this gave rise to the Australopithecus. A subset of the Australopithecus which evolved in the colder regions became Homo erectus. Fuerle writes,

The Out of Africa theory says that it was the African erectus that became modern man, then came the races, so the species Homo sapiens (and the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens) arose before the races; the Multiregional theory says that there was an Asian erectus race and an African erectus race and they both became modern man, so the races came before the species Homo sapiens. And this book says the races arose before erectus, with Australopithecus, so the races came before the genus Homo.

The Rules of Evolution

Evolution happens when a genetic mutation arises which allows individuals of a species to survive and reproduce better. Things which affect survival and reproduction include disease and climate. Exposure to diseases over time will cause a population to acquire immunity because those who aren’t immune die and those that do survive to pass on their disease-resistant genes to the next generation.

Stable climates, such as in the tropics and polar regions, have less evolutionary pressures than in the temperate zones. Average temperatures in the temperate center of North America have an average high of 83° F in the summer and lows of 20° F in the winter – a wild swing. The temperate zones also experience four different seasons which alters the food types available. This favors a generalized species with the mental ability to respond to new challenges.

Should there be a catastrophic event, such as a volcano which puts enough ash into the air that the overall global temperature drops, and many humans or other species perish as a result, then evolution accelerates provided a minimum number of individuals required to sustain the population are left.

The basic rules of evolution are that:

• Evolution is cumulative.
• Addition is easier than subtraction. (Snakes still have bones for legs.)
• Generalized → specialized → extinction.
• Specialized populations evolve in a stable environment; generalized populations evolve in a changing environment.
• Specialized populations have less genetic variation than generalized populations.
• Specialized populations evolve less and more slowly than generalized populations.
• Specialization increases carrying capacity.
• More useable energy → more biomass and more species.
• More biomass → a more “r” reproductive strategy. (An “r” strategy means more children, but less child rearing.)
• A trait evolves until it reaches its optimum, and a population evolves until it reaches equilibrium.
• The origin of a trait is where it is found.
• Behavior changes before the genome changes.
• Time and population size increases the genetic variability of a population, and disasters decrease it.
• The longer a population has not interbred with other populations, the more homozygous (inbred) it becomes and the percentage of its alleles that are recessive increases.

Among most animals the female picks who her reproductive partner will be, so males make elaborate displays and appear beautiful to attract a mate. In Eurasia, among humans, the male as a greater ability to make the choice in mate selection because men are the primary breadwinner, therefore females work to attract a male with their looks. In Africa, the women are the more valuable economic unit, so the men put on displays of physical beauty to win their females over.

Why are Whites so Different?

There is no such thing as “settled science.” Assumptions which hold for centuries may fall overnight should new data be uncovered. For now, The Out of Africa Theory remains the scientific consensus. Out of Africa has political ramifications and powerful supporters, which is probably what keeps the “scientific” consensus holding steady. Should modern humans have emerged out of Africa around 65,000 years ago and then divided into races, as the Out of Africa Theory states, then it can more easily be claimed that “science” supports the (currently fashionable) political policy of integrating sub-Saharan Africans with whites although sub-Saharan Africans have large behavioral and IQ differences. This idea also holds a promise of an integrationist final solution to racial problems through “civil rights,” affirmative action, and second…third…fourth…etc. chances. Should the races have emerged earlier, then it becomes clear that there is no solution other than separation.

Fuerle describes the origins of the three primary races – sub-Saharan Africans, Caucasians, and East Asian Mongoloids. As well as the “minor” races – the Aboriginal people in Australia and the Capoids in southwestern Africa. However, the most enlightening part of the book is the story of the Caucasians.

Most of the high accomplishment of humanity occurs in Western Europe. Source

It is clear that Caucasians – or whites – have a far more dynamism than any other race. Even “high-IQ” Orientals are not particularly dynamic. While I was stationed in the Far East in the military it was clear to me that working class whites from the hills of Tennessee had more initiative, problem solving ability, and overall drive than any of the Asians – and this included the Orientals who had US citizenship and advanced degrees.

Finding the answer as to why this is the case is probably not possible, but an educated guess can be made. It is certain that Caucasians could think abstractly and act upon those thoughts as early as 50,000 years ago. This is proven by the cave art found in Europe. Art of this quality from this timeframe is not found anywhere else. Additionally, there is the fact that modern humans in West Asia and Europe interbred with Neanderthals.

The range of the Neanderthals correspond to the core area inhabited by modern whites.

In 2008, when this book was published, the scientific consensus was that modern humans and Neanderthals were two completely separate species. It wasn’t until more DNA studies were conducted that scientists realized that Neanderthals and early humans in Eurasia – especially Europe and West Asia – had interbred. Fuerle was therefore ahead of the scientific consensus when he wrote and published this book. In the meantime, scientists have come up with one likely place for interbreeding, the Zagros Mountains, in what is now western Iran. Undoubtedly other places across the Mediterranean region were likely interbreeding sites too.

Of this, Fuerle says,

Neanderthals did not go extinct, but live on today as part of those of us who are Caucasian. Caucasians can be grateful to the Neanderthals for giving us some of their genome, though the donation may not have been pleasant for the recipients.

He goes on to add that,

[…]Neanderthals may have been night hunters. Although most cold-adapted species, such as the East Asians, have smaller eyes that are less vulnerable to cold, Neanderthals, though they were well adapted to the cold, had unusually large eyes. Also, one of the defining characteristics of Neanderthals is their occipital bun, the bulge at the back of their skull, where the brain processes visual information…If…the Neanderthal males did hunt wild cattle at night, an adventurous and highly risky behavior, it might also explain why Caucasians are more adventurous and take more risks than NE Asians, behavior that may be responsible for their greater number of discoveries and accomplishments, despite having slightly smaller brains and lower IQs than NE Asians.

There are other features that Caucasians have that no other race has – fair hair and eyes. It is very possible that these traits were acquired by the early modern humans’ interbreeding with the Neanderthals. Red hair is unique to whites and possibly acquired from Neanderthal DNA.

It is possible that fair hair and eyes come from the Neanderthals.

The Zagros Mountains are close to the Fertile Crescent, which is the location of the Biblical Garden of Eden. There, a group of modern Caucasian humans with fair hair, skin and eyes, (like modern Iraq’s Chaldean Christians) first made the jump from hunter gathering to agriculture. The group that did this expanded into Anatolia and the Caucasus Mountains – intermarrying with the hunter-gatherers there and thereby becoming the proto-Indo-Europeans. They also expanded across the Mediterranean basin, and eventually into northern Europe. This population is called the Early Farmers by modern geneticists.

The Early Farmers expanded across Europe. Agriculture was not adopted across tribes, it expanded along with the people who practiced it. Image source: Eupedia

The innovations of the people of the Fertile Crescent still shape our lives. Aside from agriculture, this includes the morality and stories found in the Bible, astrology and astronomy, and the mathematical system based on units of sixty. The Babylonians even had an accurate form of trigonometry.

Fuerle writes,

SW Asia, which includes the Fertile Triangle in Anatolia (east of the Mediterranean Sea) and Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, now Iraq) are good examples of the type of territory where the transformation of a generalized Australopithecus into a generalized Homo could have begun. Here there was food and fresh water, and just enough seasonal change to provide the mental challenges needed to begin the selection for greater intelligence and behavioral adaptations for the cold. And, when that territory became crowded, some groups would have been pushed east and west and into more mentally challenging areas to the north, e.g., Turkey and Armenia, then the Republic of Georgia, where [Homo erectus] georgicus was found.

The climate of Eurasian Georgia is varied over a very small distance allowing for the early Caucasians there to travel from one area to another as the seasons changed. This environment would have selected for intelligent generalists. Image source: Wikimedia Commons

Erectus Walks Amongst Us was written in 2008, at the nadir of pro-white influence upon American culture. That year was when Barack Obama was elected. Fuerle’s ideas were therefore well out of the mainstream when this book was printed. Today, however, this has changed. After this book was published that it became widely known among scientists that Caucasians had Neanderthal DNA and black Africans did not. Fuerle also thought that integration with sub-Saharans was a doomed policy. Recently, mainstream conservatives such as Christopher Caldwell, have finally admitted the failure of “civil rights” and desegregation. Americans have also finally become aware of the parasitical nature of Israel, and there is a political push against race-replacement immigration which didn’t exist in 2008.

Nonetheless, there is a long way to go. The anti-white George Floyd Riots of 2020 had a real constituency of well-meaning American whites. There is also scholarship which claims that “woke” liberals don’t change their minds as they age – which is a problem. Then there are many well-meaning whites, who see non-whites as compliant and friendly maids and gardeners. Meanwhile, in an open display of vicious hostility, the Biden regime’s Jewish head of the Department of Homeland Security has used Haitian refugees as bioweapons against white towns in the Rust Belt. It is possible that showing this book to others can change the minds of well-meaning whites.