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Posted on 03/18/2026 12:14:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it could belong to a human ancestor. “At 7.2 million years old, this ancestor, which we classify as belonging to the genus Graecopithecus, could be the oldest known human,” said paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto. Graecopithecus was first identified by a fragment of a lower jaw unearthed near Athens. The researchers examined the shape of the tooth roots from the jaw and concluded that Graecopithecus could represent an early human ancestor. The femur from Bulgaria is thought to have come from a female who weighed about 50 pounds. “A number of external and internal morphological features, such as the elongated, upward-pointing neck between the femur shaft and head, special attachment points for the gluteal muscles, and the thickness of the outer bone layer, have similarities with bipedal fossil human ancestors and humans,” explained paleontologist Nikolai Spassov of the Bulgarian National Museum of Natural History. Climate change in the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia between eight and six million years ago may have triggered waves of Eurasian mammals, including Graecopithecus, to migrate southward to Africa, where early human ancestors such as Australopithecus eventually emerged, added paleontologist Madelaine Böhme of the University of Tübingen. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. To read about a recent study of the musculoskeletal system of the australopithecine skeleton known as Lucy, go to "Around the World: Ethiopia."
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The Graecopithecus femur (left) from Azmaka, Bulgaria, is shown in comparison to that of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) (middle) and the thighbone of a chimpanzee (right). The femoral neck (indicated in red) is longer and more upward-pointing in the human ancestors Graecopithecus and Australopithecus than in the chimpanzee.N. Spassov, D. Youlatos, M. Böhme, R. Bogdanova, L. Hristova, D. Begun
Oh no...not a femur....
Gee, I wonder why they used a photo of the femur they dug up in Bulgaria then.
The implications they get out of the length of the neck of the femur is outstandingly comical. I wonder if the lengths of the neck of the femur could vary in a single species based on embryological development, disease, nutrition, epigenetic factors....
This mystery had already been solved:
The ‘burbs (6/10) Movie CLIP - The Femur (1989) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpga1vtS3tA
No, comical is your stupid post.
Says “climate change” between 6 million and 8 million years ago.
That means mankind’s cars, planes, trains, air conditioners, home heating systems, food processing and buildings didn’t cause it.
Just like today.
I thought you had to genus Homo to be an actual human.
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