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The oldest human ancestor may have just been found somewhere very unexpected

It has long been thought that hominins – the taxonomic tribe to which humans belong – first appeared in Africa around 7 million years ago. However, researchers may have just found the remains of an ...
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Did the First Human Ancestors Arise in the Balkans and Then Migrate to Africa? A 7.2-Million-Year-Old Femur Found in Bulgaria Rewrites the History of Evolution

Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...
Archaeology

Possible Early Human Ancestor Femur Uncovered in the Balkans

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—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 ...