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VintageVNVet • 6 years ago

Fascinating. Thank you, and best of luck to all those putting their Brains and Passion into such research!

Romed Bucher • 6 years ago

Interesting. So the Greeks were not only the first to develop modern, democratic society, but were the first all together!
And look how it turned out for them...

It's Just Me • 6 years ago

Not the greeks but the thracians.

WHITECIVILRIGHTS1 • 2 years ago

NO IT'S THE GREEKS, DID YOU EVEN READ THE ARTICLE?

Avi Marranazo • 6 years ago

Very interesting and certainly in line with the thinking of those of us who've always intuited that Europeans' and sub-Saharans' common ancestor goes much further back than 50 - 100,000 years.

Silv • 6 years ago

I think that's a leap, we still show mitochondrial "Eve" as likely from Eastern Africa about 100,000-150,000 years ago. Just because the chimp-human split may have occurred in Europe 5,000,000+ years ago doesn't mean that the pre-human species did not go to Africa after. Indeed, they must have, because they begot all of the Australopiths. We still know some great event happened 50,000-75,000 years ago that resulted in a dramatic bottleneck reducing diversity, whether Toba or what have you, most humans north of the Sahara certainly died off. This would be the split within our species you reference.

Avi Marranazo • 6 years ago

The main point is the whole "out of Africa" narrative, was more political than scientific. More than anything, it was an attempt to undermine European man's sense of separation and differentiation from sub-Saharan Africans. This is just corroboration of what has always been apparent for those who choose to see.

Ben Leeds Carson • 6 years ago

You don't appear to comprehend either the article or Silv's comment. More importantly, your analysis is bizarre. Are you trying to suggest that mitachondrial evidence of our common ancestor in sub-saharan Africa was political? Nothing about the current findings diminishes the assertion that you regard as political.

Comwest • 4 years ago

EUROPE WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF MANKIND, NOT AFRICA !!

The overwhelming effort to reconstruct hominin origins have been focused on the African continent.

Humans and chimpanzees split from their last common ancestor several hundred thousand years earlier than believed.

“Scientists have assumed up to now that the lineages diverged 5-7 million years ago and that the first pre-humans developed in Eastern Africa.”

The human lineage originated in Europe.

Graecopithecus freybergi from Pyrgos Vassilissis Amalia (Athens, Greece) and from Azmaka in Bulgaria: Oldest Hominin Lived in Europe, not Africa.

Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find.

‘Hominin’ like ‘El Graeco' is as humans with their non-ape ancestors.

Graecopithecus freybergi, nicknameded ‘El Graeco' is not an ape. He is a member of the tribe of hominins and the direct ancestor of homo.

“While great apes typically have two or three separate and diverging roots, the roots of Graecopithecus converge and are partially fused — a feature that is characteristic of modern humans, early humans and several pre-humans including Ardipithecus and Australopithecus”.

The Graecopithecus freybergi species was found to be several hundred thousand years older than the oldest African hominid, Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was found in Chad.

It's like the same if you ask anyone, which one is BETTER in everything, 3 years old child, or 23 years old adult. There's only 20 years age different, but NO ONE can claim that's not correct.

WE, The White race was here, as said, over 200 THOUSAND years before first African hominid came down from the trees in Africa. Without White man, they would ALL still try to learn how to fire up campfire.

Those blacks who's ancestors was brought to America as slaves, should be forever thankfull that it happened, because if it was not happened, where they all would be today ?

RevShawn • 6 years ago

Yeah, 1 jaw bone does not make a compelling case...

"The theory that humankind originated in Europe is an old one. It was abandoned after 1924 when the first Australopithecus was discovered in South Africa.

Since then, thousands of fossils have been found around Africa that strongly support the “African origins” hypothesis. Even if this new fossil actually turns out to be a hominin, it would only be an outlier – like a drop in the ocean. It would change very few things, because much more and far better preserved material would be necessary to totally disprove the African origin of humankind."

http://theconversation.com/...

LEROYWASH220 • 5 years ago

SO ALL PEOPLE ON EARTH COME FROM WHITE PEOPLE, EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST A LIE!

Comwest • 4 years ago

Those from Africa are from apes, Whites are not.

george christoforou • 3 years ago

Most scientists tend to be opinionated and hold only one hypothesis at one time. They need to learn to hold two or more different theories at the same time and develop both/all of them to eventually discover the true theory rather than their own personal pet theory.

Instead of fighting one another to prove themselves right they should examine each others theory without ego to enable them to develop their theories and taking into account the facts. Creating a theory based on a single jaw bone or canine tooth is okay but it needs more evidence to prove itself.