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To: sparklite2; Vermont Lt; SunkenCiv; maxwellsmart_agent; PIF; Architect of Avalon; onedoug; ...
from the article: "... 9.7-million-year-old teeth... which were discovered in a former bed of the Rhine river, don't resemble those of any other human species found in Europe or Asia. "

These teeth may well be ancient hominid teeth, but they certainly weren't yet human.
9.2 million years ago great apes had split off from orangutans, but there were not yet chimpanzees, much less humans.
So we're talking about gorillas here.

So, 9.2 million years ago gorillas roamed Europe?
Sure, why not?
But does that make them ancestors of humans?
Maybe, but how many times since then was Europe covered in ice & not habitable by hominids?
A dozen, a hundred times?
So where did those hominids go, "out of Europe"?
Well, back to Africa, of course, and there some evolved to chimpanzees and some few of those to something more human-like:


88 posted on 10/26/2017 4:43:31 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
Oooooops.

9.2 = 9.7 mya

90 posted on 10/26/2017 5:58:17 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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