Live data from Hacker News

Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

phys.org

1–10 of 138 posts

Re: Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

#6
post #3
post #2

The title on this needs to be corrected to match the article.

"Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe" I have no idea what that even says :(

But on the plus side I've got a lot of great words to use in Scrabble now

Re: Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

#7
post #5

Could someone "explain like I'm five" the article?

Fossils belonging to a species found in Greece showed similar features to the earliest known hominins (human species lineage), but were even older, shifting the "birthplace" of the modern human species from Africa to Europe.

Re: Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

#9
I'm not remotely an anthropologist, but my very-simple take on this is that it has no impact on the out-of-africa hypothesis which happened relatively recently (~60k years ago) -- this just suggests that ~7mm years ago, earlier human hominids were found in Europe.

(think, maybe Lucy's ancestors came from Bulgaria. or had a dead family tree which lived in Bulgaria.)

Post reply on HN