October 15, 2024

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A controversial study claims that the ancestors of humans and apes originated in Europe, not Africa

A controversial study claims that the ancestors of humans and apes originated in Europe, not Africa

newly identified ape and human ancestor, Turkish Anatolia. (Image credit: Sevim-Erol, A., Begun, DR, Sözer, CS et al., University of Toronto, EurekAlert)

A fossil of an ape found in Turkey may debatably indicate that the ancestors of African apes and humans first evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa, a research team said in a new study.

This proposal bucks the traditional view that hominins—the group that includes humans, African apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas) and their fossil ancestors—originated exclusively in Africa.