The assumptions about the origin of Homo sapiens are always of great interest. The last significant contribution to the topic is provided by the article "Pan-Africanism vs. single-origin of Homo sapiens: putting the debate in the light of evolutionary biology", published in the Evolutionary Anthropology journal, signed by Giorgio Manzi, paleoanthropologist of the Department of Environmental Biology of the University La Sapienza in Rome, and two professors of the University of Padua, the philosopher of science Andra Meneganzin and the historian and philosopher of biology Telmo Pievani. The authors have examined the two most accredited hypotheses today, analyzing the lines of evidence in support of the models under discussion and highlighting some inferential limits and terminological misunderstandings recurring in the current international debate. After the outdated theories of the eighties on the widespread origins of the modern human species, today two visions are opposed. The first, which is based on fossil evidence and genetic data, indicates that the origins of Homo sapiens would be to be found in an isolated population of East Africa over 200,000 years ago. The second, called "pan-African", suggests that the combination of typical characteristics of our species would have been acquired in different populations spread over a vast territory, between Morocco and South Africa; from the influence of the genetic and cultural relations constituted by these populations, in more remote times than those previously hypothesized (dating back more than 300,000 years ago), the characteristics of the Homo sapiens of the species would have emerged.