[CatOwner]

So, the origin of humans may not be from Africa? That’s going to sit well with BLM. /s

[beaversmom]

Ping

[Husker24]

They won’t allow research on this.

[Billthedrill]

NOOOOOOO! Oh, NOOOOOOOO!!

(Sob!) I'm French.

[MNDude]

I always wondered why the supposedly oldest civilization also seemed the most backwards. This seems to make sense to me.

[Vermont Lt]

Which time?

If you think this is the first time around for humanity, the evidence just doesn’t support it.

[Nifster]

Well that’s going to upset some folks if true

[StAntKnee]

Opportunity to say, no matter what debates you all engage in. I think we can agree the science is never settled. Sometimes the science is wrong.

[minnesota_bound]

Bones found in a dry climate does not mean they were the first. It just means they did not break down as they would in a wetter environment.

[Gay State Conservative]

Authors of this reported labeled as racists in 3....2....1...

[oincobx]

Does it really matter where it started since the planet was depopulated by the Flood and everyone alive today traces back to Noah?

[wastedyears]

They’re still tribal.

[US_MilitaryRules]

A picture of prince charles smiling!

[Architect of Avalon]

Out of Africa is a politically-motivated myth.

[healy61]

Will a pebble the size of a tooth last 9.7 million years?

[onedoug]

I don’t see a distinct Y-5 pattern in those teeth, unless I’m missing something as I’m no expert. Yet I always thought Lucy’s teeth displayed it.

[libertylover]

The researchers claim they were so baffled by the findings scared of a violent left-wing reaction, that it has taken them a year to announce the discovery.

Fixed it.

[ConservaTeen]

I guess we don’t know where we came from...maybe they’ll discover America was the birthplace of the human race.

[Katya]

If one accepts the “Lucy” creature as a human precursor, then yes these creatures also roamed Europe once upon a time and perhaps earlier than in Africa.

[BroJoeK]

from the article: "... 9.7-million-year-old teeth... which were discovered in a former bed of the Rhine river, don't resemble those of any other human species found in Europe or Asia. "

These teeth may well be ancient hominid teeth, but they certainly weren't yet human.
9.2 million years ago great apes had split off from orangutans, but there were not yet chimpanzees, much less humans.
So we're talking about gorillas here.

So, 9.2 million years ago gorillas roamed Europe?
Sure, why not?
But does that make them ancestors of humans?
Maybe, but how many times since then was Europe covered in ice & not habitable by hominids?
A dozen, a hundred times?
So where did those hominids go, "out of Europe"?
Well, back to Africa, of course, and there some evolved to chimpanzees and some few of those to something more human-like: