The face, jaw and teeth of a 12-million-year-old hominid named Anoiapithecus brevirostris. The fossil's presence in Spain suggests that hominids migrated from Europe into Africa before the evolution of modern humans (Image: National Academy of Sciences, PNAS)
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Good question! Did they smell bad or have crooked teeth?
Possible Bravo Sierra Alert being posted.
IIRC, the loss of fangs was apparent in the African pre-men by 2.5 million years ago.
That jaw seems to have fangs.
“This “into Africa” scenario is likely to be controversial. Critics argue that discoveries like Moyà-Solà’s are more likely to reflect the quality of the fossil records in Africa and Europe than offer clues to the actual origins of hominids.”..........Huh?
What an amazing example of double-speak!
On the basis of that small amount of evidence, it is declared to be a hominid ancestor. It really takes a lot of imagination to be a paleontologist!
Interesting theory. But the amount of genetic diversity and the amount of lingusitic diversity among humans is greates in Africa. According to biologists and linguists, this would indicate the source of human speech and human evolution is Africa. But that doesn’t discount the possibility that ancestors of modern humans may have evolved somewhere else, and then moved into Africa before they evolved further along the hominid line.
There sure isn't much to work with in trying to draw conclusions. But it's fun to speculate, isn't it?
