Europe “Birthplace Of Mankind, Not Africa,” Scientists Find

The New Observer writes The “out of Africa” theory—promoted by the leftist establishment in its mania to prove racial equality—has been thoroughly disproven with the news that the oldest homid fossils have been found in Europe, not Africa.

According to a new article published in the PLOS-One journal, titled “Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe,” (May 22, 2017), two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.

The discovery of the creature, named Graecopithecus freybergi, and nicknameded ‘El Graeco’ by scientists, is at least 200,000 years older the oldest hominid found in Africa—something that should be impossible if the “out of Africa” theory was true.

“This study changes the ideas related to the knowledge about the time and the place of the first steps of the humankind,” said Professor Nikolai Spassov from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

“Graecopithecus is not an ape. He is a member of the tribe of hominins and the direct ancestor of homo. The food of the Graecopithecus was related to the rather dry and hard savannah vegetation, unlike that of the recent great apes which are leaving in forests. Therefore, like humans, he has wide molars and thick enamel.

The team analysed the two known specimens of Graecopithecus freybergi: a lower jaw from Greece and an upper premolar tooth from Bulgaria. Using computer tomography, they were able to visualize the internal structures of the fossils and show that the roots of premolars are widely fused.

“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,”, said lead researcher Professor Madelaine Böhme of the University of Tübingen.

The lower jaw, has additional dental root features, suggesting that the species was a hominid. The species was also found to be several hundred thousand years older than the oldest African hominid, Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was found in Chad.

“We were surprised by our results, as pre-humans were previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa,” said doctoral student Jochen Fuss, a Tübingen PhD student who conducted this part of the study.

Professor Böhme added: “Our findings may eventually change our ideas about the origin of humanity. I personally don’t think that the descendants of Graecopithecus died out, they may have spread to Africa later. The split of chimps and humans was a single event. Our data support the view that this split was happening in the eastern Mediterranean—not in Africa. If accepted, this theory will indeed alter the very beginning of human history.”

• The debate is founded upon the theory that primates “evolved” into homo erectus. This theory is however also just that–a theory! The “out of Africa” theory—also just a theory—has long been promoted to argue that all the human races “are African”—when in fact they are distinctly not.