Out of Europe hypothesis has been on the fringes of the evolutionary science world for decades. But now, with recent Miocene Ape fossil finds in southeastern Europe, the theory has taken center stage. University of Toronto lead researcher Prof. David Begun, in a recent interview right here at YouTube, confirmed that the evidence fundamentally shifts the Human family tree.
And increasingly likely scenario is that Europeans have entirely separate origins from Africans, starting 13.5 million years ago with Dryopithecus emerging into Graecopithecus and Anadoluvius. "El Graeco" survived to at least 7mya. But Anadoluvius, just discovered in Anataolia (northern Turkey) could have held on to 4 even 3 million years ago. That would make it a prime candidate for a direct ancestor of Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis. Heidelbergensis of course, is the likely Last Common Ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans and Euro-Homo sapiens.
