Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find

The Telegraph UK ^ | 22 May 2017 | Sarah Knapton

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T he 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.

The discovery of the creature, named Graecopithecus freybergi, and nicknameded ‘El Graeco' by scientists, proves our ancestors were already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.

[blueplum]

missing link discovered in Europe?

[StAntKnee]

Cue the shrieking Valkyries.

[Mount Athos]

i also heard a theory about the country of Georgia as an origin point

[wgmalabama]

Africans may have descended from animal millions of years ago but I suspect I did not.

My person theory is we evolved separately / geographically and there were interbreeding. I believe God created all of us in his own way.

I also think we have evolved / devolved multiple times as events put pressure on us and all species.

[Don Corleone]

As old as the Earth is we could all be the second or even third iteration of hominids.

[madison10]

Hah! My people birthed civilization.

(Still think it was the fertile crescent.)

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh my. Just reading the first excerpt could have many angry from several angles.

[Will88]

Whatever this new evidence is, the PC folks are not going to like it at all.

[King Moonracer]

Now we know where the uni-brow comes from, prehistoric bulgarians.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Curly Q Link. The missing link.

[WMarshal]

This does not surprise me. It is a widely accepted theory that winters in the northern hemisphere drove the evolution of human intelligence. You could not just forage day-to-day in the northern hemisphere and expect to survive the winter without advanced planning, food preservation and storage and the ability to predict the weather and changing of the seasons.

Richard Lynn (Kanazawa, 2013; Lynn, 1987) proposed that because European and Asian environments feature extremely cold winters the inhabitants of these regions historically faced greater challenges to survival than Africans. He claimed that these survival challenges would have created selection pressures for greater intelligence. Africans on the other hand live in tropical conditions all year round and hence did not need as much intelligence.

[Verginius Rufus]

They found the fossils in Bulgaria and Greece, but are naming it Graecopithecus?

Why are they privileging Greece? Sure, Socrates and Plato were Greeks, but Spartacus was a Thracian. Why not Thracopithecus?

[WMarshal]

Cue the shrieking Valkyries.

I hear that their scream sounds like "RREEEEEEEEEE!" and has a cuck-like whiny tone.

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[Vermont Lt]

These were probably from people the other time around.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There is a fish in the Atlantic that has human like teeth.

This proves that we are descended from mermaids.

[I want the USA back]

So the entire theory up to now has been demolished by two bones. The theory couldn’t have been very solid!

[Chode]

so i'm a white boy after all

[mountainlion]

With the theory of Evilution you can say almost anything and say you are a scientist and people will believe you.