Guess who came up with the "Out of Africa" theory
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humans appeared at most 2 million years ago, the earths surface was pretty much in its current position as of at least 20 million years ago, maybe more
that is assuming you believe any of the rest of the story
Pangea was like 200 million years ago. When dinosaurs roamed the land.
Oldest hominid found is a few million years ago and they were well different from modern people.
That would be a really huge gap in the record for humans to have spread out on the supercontinent and then stayed interbreedable for a couple hundred millions of years. Hollow Earth is more believable than that.
That would also require humans to be the first mammals.
You are correct but when South America was connected to Africa but I don't think apes even existed. It was millions of years before humans evolved. By the way I don't know if I believe the out of Africa theory either. Nothing can surprise me.
Other people have already pointed out the rediculous statement regarding pangea, I'll only comment on the fossil record aspect. You can't really rely on a fossil record with hominids because we tend to favour more temperate and forested climates which don't preserve bodies very well (there are obviously certain situations such as bogs and peaty soils where this is the opposite, and incredibly lucky situations in which a body is quickly buried under a lot of sediment). So you have an abundance of preserved fossil evidence of hominids in dryer climates such as North Africa, but very little outside, which might not reflect the reality of the situation.