[BGHater]

Skull fragments from modern humans and the human ancestor Australopithecus include teeth—fossil features that can offer valuable clues to a species' genetic lineage.

New analysis of more than 5,000 fossil teeth suggests that early humans from Asia, not Africa, were the first to colonize Europe.

[BGHater]

Tooth Fairy Ping

[shekkian]

May also explain how most European languages are classified as Indo-European.

[mtbopfuyn]

"Just because people had come out of Africa didn't mean that they couldn't turn around and go back again," she said.

Or visa verus. Or maybe that's just where they happen to find fossils and that people were really everywhere.

[AbeKrieger]

Wait a minute... you mean I ain’t done be descended from “kings and queens” ?

[dfwgator]

So much for my reparations.

[FormerLib]

Why do they call us Caucasians, anyway?

Exactly where are the Caucasus again?

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

Good. So I can now put African->Asian->Irish American as my race and get me some pref’rential set asides. Woo Hoo!!

[SQUID]

This means everyone is Russian?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Europe’s first early human colonizers were from Asia, not Africa, ***

Good grief! Make up your mind! How many changes does that make in evolution history. Out with the old theory in with the new! Who knows what they will claim next year or the next decade.

Everything we have been force fed about evolution is now knocked into a cocked hat....again!

[Revolting cat!]

I was just getting used to being an ‘African-American’ and now you tell me I’m ‘Asian’ (formerly ‘Chinaman’)?

[Tzimisce]

for later :D

[SunkenCiv]

Wasn’t there a topic already? I couldn’t find it. But anyway, related:

‘First west Europe tooth’ (million-year-old human tooth) found in Spain
BBC News | 6-30-07 | BBC/AFP
Posted on 06/30/2007 6:05:03 PM EDT by GraniteStateConservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858939/posts

Chance And Isolation Gave Humans Elegant Skulls
New Scientist | 7-24-2007
Posted on 07/25/2007 6:31:25 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871583/posts

[SunkenCiv]

some more to chew on:

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[ZULU]

I always liked rice.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BGHater.

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[Andonius_99]

By the condition of the teeth pictured, I almost assumed we came from Britain...(j/k my fellow Brit FReepers) :)

[bert]

Somewhere along the line, Kate got sidetracked with thoughts of migration routes. The article is based on differences in teeth but she failed to mention what the differences were.

If there are differences in teeth between Africans and Eur/Asians, what are those differences?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Is this finding going to mess up the National Geographic human journey project? That has people descending from the1st Eve(s) coming out of Africa and spreading over the world at the lend of the last Ice Age. Click Here