Libyan find suggests earlier ancestors came from Asia

AFP ^ | October 27, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

PARIS (AFP) – Ancient fossilized teeth of small anthropoid monkeys discovered in Libya suggest our earliest ancestors may have migrated from Asia to Africa, research published Wednesday showed.

The origin of anthropoids -- primates including monkeys, apes and humans -- has long been a source of hot debate among palaeontologists.

Experts have long argued anthropoids first appeared in Africa -- but recent studies suggest an earlier Asian origin, dating 55 million years ago.

Now new fossils, dating 38 to 39 million years ago and discovered in Dur At-Talah in central Libya, further complicate the debate.

They reveal the existence of three types of African anthropoids -- the oldest discovered on the continent to date, according to the study published in the British journal Nature.

Based on previous discoveries in Egypt and Algeria, "we are aware until now of only one form of anthropoid primate, dating back 37 million years ago for the oldest," said one of the study's authors, Jean-Jacques Jaeger, of Poitiers University in France.

"Here we have gone further, to 39 or 38 million years, and we have three (types) ... and among the three, there is an Asiatic form," he told AFP.

"This therefore signals the direction of migration from Asia toward Africa," Jaeger added.

[decimon]

Kadaffi’s your daddy ping.

[a fool in paradise]

So all life doesn’t come from Mother Africa? A whole lot of college professors are going to have to spin a new historical yarn.

[Berlin_Freeper]

39 million years ago Asia was in Africa.

[Gadsden1st]

Wife is taking an Anthropology course right now. I just read this to her and her comment was “ROTT ROOW”!!

[November 2010]

Somewhere, somewhen, something was our first ancestor. Over the course of some indefinite time, something happened, and humans appeared. Scientific precision. You’d be a fool to question it.

[decimon]

Wife is taking an Anthropology course right now. I just read this to her and her comment was “ROTT ROOW”!!

Sure that wasn't your parrot?

[a fool in paradise]

Yep.

But there exist corrupt “educators” who indoctrinate a segment of society to believe that Africa was a wonderful paradise until a scientist “invented” white people who are “white devils” who let loose all of the evils on the world.

And yes, this IS a ideology that has poisoned minds for generations even if they want to insist it is just a parable.

[Gadsden1st]

Naw, parrot fell off the perch and has been laying on the bottom of the cage for days now, need to bring him back to the pet shop.

[blam]

"39 million years ago Asia was in Africa."

LOL. 120 million years ago, Africa was part of South America.

[RJS1950]

The Africa, single point of origin has never been fully accepted although the PC anthropologists tend to pretty much silence any other point of view.

[MrEdd]

[Islander7]

Well, that explains the universal appeal of Chinese food.

[SunkenCiv]

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• The Chinese evolved from Indians: Study
  (along with the Japanese, Koreans and all other east Asians)
• New fossil reveals primates lingered in Texas
• Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline
• Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old: study
• From Jaw to Ear: Transition Fossil Reveals
  Ear Evolution in Action (Yanoconodon)
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age
• Humanity's Strange Face

[SunkenCiv]

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[1010RD]

Sounds like the Chinese investment in anthropology grants is paying off.

[colorado tanker]

This find gave it away:

[blam]

Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says

[decimon]

I remember that.

Doesn’t bother me one way or the other. As Popeye said, I yam what I yam.

[SunkenCiv]

I wonder what made it swing American?