Homo sapiens were not the first people to live on Earth, as Dr. Swamidass points out. Think about the existence of other human species between 1.9 and 1.9 million years ago, such Homo habilis.
However, some experts now think Eden could really be the birthplace of civilization. According to the Daily Star, archaeologists have determined that.
The biblical Eden may have really been the ancient Mesopotamia, which includes what is now eastern Syria, northwest Turkey, and a sizable portion of Iraq.
In his book From Eden to Exile, Eric Cline, a professor of classical and biblical archaeology at George Washington University,
