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Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find
The Telegraph UK ^
| 22 May 2017
| Sarah Knapton
Posted on 05/22/2017 5:08:14 PM PDT by blueplum
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.
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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: anthropology; graecopithecus; greece; missinglink
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missing link discovered in Europe?
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:08:14 PM PDT
by
blueplum
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To: blueplum
Cue the shrieking Valkyries.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:12:55 PM PDT
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: blueplum
i also heard a theory about the country of Georgia as an origin point
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:14:39 PM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: blueplum
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.
To: blueplum
As old as the Earth is we could all be the second or even third iteration of hominids.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:16:50 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: blueplum
Hah! My people birthed civilization.
(Still think it was the fertile crescent.)
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:17:12 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: blueplum
Oh my. Just reading the first excerpt could have many angry from several angles.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:17:49 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: blueplum
Whatever this new evidence is, the PC folks are not going to like it at all.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:20:06 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: blueplum
Now we know where the uni-brow comes from, prehistoric bulgarians.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:20:18 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(I wish I had the Tantulus field, but I'd probably wear it out.)
To: blueplum
Curly Q Link. The missing link.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:21:06 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: blueplum
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.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:22:01 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
To: blueplum
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?
To: StAntKnee
Cue the shrieking Valkyries. I hear that their scream sounds like "RREEEEEEEEEE!" and has a cuck-like whiny tone.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:24:11 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
To: blueplum
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:25:37 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: blueplum
These were probably from people the other time around.
To: blueplum
There is a fish in the Atlantic that has human like teeth.
This proves that we are descended from mermaids.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:32:53 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: blueplum
So the entire theory up to now has been demolished by two bones. The theory couldn’t have been very solid!
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:37:46 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Acting consistently in a way that is contrary to nature results in insanity.)
To: blueplum
so i'm a white boy after all
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:38:30 PM PDT
by
Chode
(My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
To: blueplum
With the theory of Evilution you can say almost anything and say you are a scientist and people will believe you.
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posted on
05/22/2017 5:40:42 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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