Scientists have found an 8.7-million-year-old fossil of a monkey in Turkey, challenging long-held ideas about human origins.
Scientists believe that our species began in Africa, however Modern studyA study conducted by a team of scientists disproved this idea after the discovery of the fossil of an unknown 8.7-million-year-old hominin species in Korakierler, Turkey.
The fossil, known as Anadoluvius turkae, adds to the list of ancient hominins discovered in the Mediterranean region.
In recent years, according to Haaretz, fossils of ancient hominins have been found in Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece that predate the oldest known African hominin, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, which lived about 7 million years ago.
Recent findings support the hypothesis that the ancestors of African apes and humans may have evolved in Europe and migrated to Africa about 9 million years ago.
An international team led by researchers, David Begin of the University of Toronto Ayla Sevim Erol, of the University of Ankara, said: “The results indicate that hominins not only evolved in western and central Europe, but also spent more than five million years evolving there and spreading to the eastern Mediterranean. before eventually spreading to Africa.
In Europe, these strains became extinct, but in Africa they witnessed rapid diversification, which led to the emergence of the great apes we know and the various hominins and present humans.
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2023-08-30 19:22:01