Graecopithecus
Ancient fossils in the “Cradle of Humankind” are more than 1 million years older than previously thought
The fossils’ updated age makes them several hundred thousand years older than the human ancestor “Lucy”
Did humans originate in Greece, or Africa?
A new examination of two 7.2 million-year-old fossils from southern Europe suggests that humans split off from the great apes several hundred thousand years earlier than we thought.
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Scientists hope to show humankind originated in Mediterranean
A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature which may be the oldest-known direct ancestor of man and whose discovery has challenged the central hypothesis that humankind originated in Africa.