Posted on 06/01/2009 4:07:32 PM PDT by decimon
Millions of years before early humans evolved in Africa, their ancestors may have lived in Europe, a 12-million-year-old fossil hominid from Spain suggests.
The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin. While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans. However, it also has features of a related group called kenyapithecins.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
Hola ping.
This may please some. If anything will.
Even if it’s true, it would not be politically correct to say we didn’t all originate in africa and I’m sure 0bama’s buddies would say it was racist.
Yes. They were Helen Thomas and John Mccain, which explains a lot....
Thanks decimon. You beat me! Too small a window for me to catch it. :’(
Additional (plus the ping):
Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
New Scientist | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Bob Holmes
Posted on 06/01/2009 4:15:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2262492/posts
The face, jaw and teeth of a 12-million-year-old hominid named Anoiapithecus brevirostris. The fossil's presence in Spain suggests that hominids migrated from Europe into Africa before the evolution of modern humans (Image: National Academy of Sciences, PNAS)
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My inner hominid is sharp today.
No, they were probably pretty self-sufficient.
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