[HOLY S**T!] Scientists now conclude Europe is birthplace of Mankind! History Rewritten!

[Theodore]

History rewritten, with Europe the birthplace of mankind

It looks like we humans may have evolved from an ape-like creature found in Bulgaria and Greece, not Africa.


The history of human evolution continues to evolve.

Up until now, experts have believed human lineage split from apes some 7 million years ago in Africa. But now scientists have traced the first hominid species to Europe instead some 7.2 million years ago.

An international team of researchers shook up the science books with two studies published Monday in the journal Plos One. Their findings are based on two fossils of species discovered in Greece and Bulgaria.

The creature they discovered, named Graecopithecus freybergi, is nicknameded "El Graeco."

The findings shift the location of the last common ancestor of both chimpanzees and humans, what some refer to as the Missing Link, to the Mediterranean. Our ancestors were apparently already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.

https://www.cnet.com/news/history-re...ce-of-mankind/

[Szef]

Yep.

We wuz found'n fathers. And shiet.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Interesting.


It amazes me how much mankind has learned, and still shows there still is much to know.

The whole existence of live, not just mankind, has always fascinated me.. dinosaurs, and everything that came after that, where the **** did everything start. Probably an impossible question to answer

[Tom Cruise]

Seems more like they are saying that the last common ancestor between us and chimps was discovered in Greece/ Bulgaria, rather than it being the birthplace of 'mankind', (ie, **** Sapiens) which is well established to be in Africa.

Also, from the comments:

Standard irresponsible title meant to grab clicks and prey on the scientifically illiterate. The authors of the paper don't even make the claim in the title, though they suggest this could be the case. No attempt to discuss the older fossils known to exist in Africa at the time, nor the problem with inferring information from the teeth found: "Only one canine root was studied. Plus, he said, there's no way to consider the root in the context of the entire tooth — the canine crown had snapped off. “So there’s little basis for accepting the exceptional claim that a 7.2 million year old fossil from Greece is the oldest known human ancestor!”" (Quote from Richard Potts of the Smithsonian)"

[Citizen Koba]

History rewritten, with Europe the birthplace of mankind

It looks like we humans may have evolved from an ape-like creature found in Bulgaria and Greece, not Africa.


The history of human evolution continues to evolve.

Up until now, experts have believed human lineage split from apes some 7 million years ago in Africa. But now scientists have traced the first hominid species to Europe instead some 7.2 million years ago.

An international team of researchers shook up the science books with two studies published Monday in the journal Plos One. Their findings are based on two fossils of species discovered in Greece and Bulgaria.

The creature they discovered, named Graecopithecus freybergi, is nicknameded "El Graeco."

The findings shift the location of the last common ancestor of both chimpanzees and humans, what some refer to as the Missing Link, to the Mediterranean. Our ancestors were apparently already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.

https://www.cnet.com/news/history-re...ce-of-mankind/

Hardly a smoking gun, but interesting work nonetheless... it will depend on further fossil evidence as the concluding paragraph from the study states. Popular news always over dramatises such findings, but in the original research paper the authors properly temper their findings with caution.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...e-0177127-g001

'Therefore, we submit that the dental root attributes of Graecopithecus suggest hominin affinities, such that its hominin status cannot be excluded. If this status is confirmed by additional fossil evidence, Graecopithecus would be the oldest known hominin and the oldest known crown hominine, as the evidence for the gorillin status of Chororapithecus is much weaker than the hominin status of Graecopithecus [8]. More fossils are needed but at this point it seems likely that the Eastern Mediterranean needs to be considered as just as likely a place of hominine diversification and hominin origins as tropical Africa.'

(my italicisation)

[betmen]

oh ****!! chaotic debate with the word "nubiyan" and "pharaoh" thrown around incoming.

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oh ****!! chaotic debate with the word "nubiyan" and "pharaoh" thrown around incoming.

I never understood why afrocentrists are so fixated on the origin debate.

Regardless of where modern humans originated, that original population wouldn't have belonged to any modern racial group. We would put them in zoos.

People are fighting over who gets to be this:



Hey, be my guest.

[TonyGe]

They didn't conclude anything. They are speculating at this point.

[DoubleLeftH00k]

u guys accepted u originated from monkeys

heck no

i originated from God

[MDPopescu]

Seems more like they are saying that the last common ancestor between us and chimps was discovered in Greece/ Bulgaria, rather than it being the birthplace of 'mankind', (ie, **** Sapiens) which is well established to be in Africa.

Also, from the comments:

... ^^^ something like that...

(the original article here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0177127)

( "**** Sapiens": the so called "modern humans"...)