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Title: Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/ ... nd-not-africa-scientists-find/
Published: May 22, 2017
Author: Sarah Knapton, science editor
Post Date: 2017-05-22 16:43:05 by Ada
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Comments: 19

The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa.
Currently, most experts believe that our human lineage split from apes around seven million years ago in central Africa, where hominids remained for the next five million years before venturing further afield.
But two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Not likely; there were no monkeys in Europe.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515969/Humans-evolved-female-chimpanzee-mated-pig-Extraordinary-claim-American-geneticist.html

Tatarewicz posted on 2017-05-23 2:16:38 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#5. To: Tatarewicz (#1)
Not likely; there were no monkeys in Europe.

How do you know what was living in what is now called Europe 50 thousand years ago?

sneakypete posted on 2017-05-23 9:43:38 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#8. To: sneakypete (#5)
This was supposedly 7.2 million years ago.

Ada posted on 2017-05-23 11:56:45 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#10. To: Ada (#8)
This was supposedly 7.2 million years ago.

I ain't no mathematician,but it occurs to me there were several years between 7.2 million years ago and 50,000 years ago,when the monkeys could have lived in Europe and then migrated south as time passed.

sneakypete posted on 2017-05-23 12:52:38 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#11. To: sneakypete (#10)
Monkeys may or may not have lived in Europe. This creature from 7.2 million years ago might be the missing link, i.e., the ancestor of both humans and chimps.

Ada posted on 2017-05-23 17:50:46 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#13. To: Ada (#11)
Monkeys may or may not have lived in Europe. This creature from 7.2 million years ago might be the missing link, i.e., the ancestor of both humans and chimps.

Could be either or both.
Or neither.

sneakypete posted on 2017-05-23 18:24:52 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#15. To: sneakypete (#13)
Of course it ain't "monkeys" that are of concern as far as the study of human evolution goes.
It's the great apes and their ancestors that interest anthrpologists in that regard.
And yes, the fossils of both monkeys and apes are found in Europe. They disappeared from that continent in the Miocene period (about 7 million years ago) and represent species different from those living today.

randge posted on 2017-05-23 19:42:51 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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X-15 posted on 2017-05-23 19:57:00 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#19. To: X-15 (#16)
Many no longer believe humans "evolved" from ancient hominids, bone wielding or whatever.
Given the relative eyeblink in time wherein they are supposed to have occurred, the discontinuities in anatomy, physiology, and genetics are just too huge to be ascribed to some smooth process of "evolution."

randge posted on 2017-05-24 10:34:27 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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