[SunkenCiv]

The newly identified ape and human ancestor, Anadoluvius turkae.

Image credit: Sevim-Erol, A., Begun, D.R., Sözer, Ç.S. et al., University of Toronto, EurekAlert

[nickcarraway]

I love science of this kind, and suspected there would be broadening discoveries like this. Buy I regret people will needlessly politicize things.

[doorgunner69]

Sheila Jackson-Lee most upset........

[Skywise]

If you’re a believer in evolution this shouldn’t be a surprise. If life generates from hot, molten, mag-ma as these guys believe then multiple progentior species appearing at the same time as they become viable around multiple points in the world should be the norm. Or, more likely, that you had hundreds of different tribes and large families roaming the lands (much like the indians of North America) developing on their own for a buncha generations and then finding themselves again and cross breeding...

But I find it fascinating that the evolutionists will always adopt the Christian model of life but then replace it with “scientific theory” to co-opt it.

[kelly4c]

Bookmark

[MinorityRepublican]

Doesn’t matter where it began. But I assume that due to the harsh climate in Europe, that forced the Europeans to innovate and develop technology. That’s where we are today.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

the researchers analyzed a newly identified ape fossil from the 8.7 million-year-old site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia.

This is Asia, not Europe. The Romans called this region "Asia."

[Fiji Hill]

The John T. Scopes Trial

Oh, the folks in Tennessee are as faithful as can be,
And they know the Bible teaches what is right.
They believe in God above and his great undying love,
And they know they are protected by his might.

Then to Dayton came a man with his new ideas, so grand,
And he said we came from monkeys long ago.
But in teaching his belief, Mr. Scopes found only grief,
For they would not let their old religion go.

You may find the new belief, it will only bring you grief.
For a house that's built on sand will surely fall.
And wherever you may turn, there's a lesson you will learn:
That the old religion's better, after all.

[roving]

It started in the garden of Eden.

[minnesota_bound]

I do not think it is possible to pinpoint just where our ancestors came from. Africa just happened to have large dryer areas that preserved the bones better.

It could also be that aliens would drop off their pets on various continents and leave them here on earth and they became us.... : )

[SauronOfMordor]

Climate was very different 9 million years ago. Since then, there were several Ice Age glacial periods which would have pushed European critters south to escape the cold, then drawn them back north when the glaciers retreated.

130k years ago, during a warm period, we had hippos and elephants in Britain

https://theecologist.org/2016/jan/22/last-time-earth-was-hot-britain-was-land-hippos-and-elephants

[Angelino97]

In the new study, the researchers analyzed a newly identified ape fossil from the 8.7 million-year-old site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia. They dubbed the species Anadoluvius turkae. "Anadolu" is the modern Turkish word for Anatolia, and "turk" refers to Turkey.

Turkey? Isn't that where Noah's ark is said to have landed? Which would make Turkey the origin point of humanity.

Curious coincidence.

[Adder]

Anadoluvius turkae.

So we are not monkeys but jive turkeys?

Explains a lot...

[Tell It Right]

I’m sure believers in evolution can appreciate some of us being skeptical after frauds like Lucy.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST /s

[euram]

This would certainly undercut the decades-long effort to make everyone think of themselves as being part black.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Studies are when a bunch of booschidt artists get together, decide what they want to “prove,” they get a government grant and then work backwards to “prove” they’re desired result. Studies really suck. Most of them are done by retards who got Bidenskyyyyy to force American workers to pay for their worthless diploma student loans.

[aquila48]

“The fossil suggests that A. turkae likely weighed about 110 to 130 pounds”

For some reason that got me thinking about Thanksgiving...

[plain talk]

"The closest living relatives of humans are the apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons. We all had the same common ancestor that lived during the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5 million years ago). While scientists don't have any remains of this enigmatic creature, how might it have looked?"

[DFG]

I’m no kin to the monkey song:

I’m no kin to the monkey, no no no
And the monkey’s no kin to me, yeah yeah yeah
I don’t know much about his ancestors
But mine didn’t swing from a tree.

Although it’s so ridiculous
They’re teaching us now that it’s true.
The teachers that came from a monkey
Would be better off in a zoo.

I’m no kin to the monkey, no no no
And the monkey’s no kin to me, yeah yeah yeah
I don’t know much about his ancestors
But mine didn’t swing from a tree.

It seems so much more believable
And surely, surely it’s true
That God made man in his image.
No monkey story will do.

I’m no kin to the monkey, no no no
And the monkey’s no kin to me, yeah yeah yeah
I don’t know much about his ancestors
But mine didn’t swing from a tree.

This monkey business has got to go
Because it just isn’t true.
It’s such a disgrace to the monkey
A disgrace to the human race, too.

I’m no kin to the monkey, no no no
And the monkey’s no kin to me, yeah yeah yeah
I don’t know much about his ancestors
But mine didn’t swing from a tree.

[dfwgator]

So much for my reparations. I was going to claim being an “African-American”