Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find

[TurboDweeb]

[QUOTE=Crimor;52276113]You're no better than them if you just discard it without looking further into it.[/QUOTE]

Give me a similar mountain of contrary evidence, or even just a tall pile, or if not, just a good explanantion for why the prior mountain of evidence is wrong, and i will gladly take a look. Being skeptical of one discrepant discovery isn't a terrible thing

[Crimor]

[QUOTE=DChapsfield;52278471]Give me a similar mountain of contrary evidence, or even just a tall pile, or if not, just a good explanantion for why the prior mountain of evidence is wrong, and i will gladly take a look. Being skeptical of one discrepant discovery isn't a terrible thing[/QUOTE]

Except they weren't being skeptical, they were discarding the entire discovery because of feels.

[Sobotnik]

humans definitely evolved in africa (no disputing that), as did their predecessors but its possible that their ancestors in turn came from europe

this one from greece is so old that we could be potentially talking not just about the ancestors of humans, but the ancestors of the chimpanzees and other apes too

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52278512]humans definitely evolved in africa (no disputing that), as did their predecessors but its possible that their ancestors in turn came from europe

this one from greece is so old that we could be potentially talking not just about the ancestors of humans, but the ancestors of the chimpanzees and other apes too[/QUOTE]

As far as I can tell, their claims hinge on the fact that this fossil's jaw has features unique to hominins (?) - so in that case, the feature would have had to disappear in apes.

[Tetsmega]

[QUOTE=cxcxxxxx;52276034]Homo sapiens are humans. The genus Homo, is the human genus, while the species sapien is modern man, like you or I, as opposed early humans like homo erectus.[/QUOTE]

I fucked it up and meant monkeys/apes.

[SouthParkMGT]

Soo.. we wuz not kangs?

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52279038]As far as I can tell, their claims hinge on the fact that this fossil's jaw has features unique to hominins (?) - so in that case, the feature would have had to disappear in apes.[/QUOTE]

it's entirely possible that could have happened, although we'd need to wait for more evidence i suppose