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New scientific data suggests anthropoids originated in ASIA and later COLONIZED Africa !

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posted on Oct, 28 2010 @ 05:44 AM
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It just goes to show that even when you think that the theory that anthropoids (the primate group that includes humans) originally evolved in Africa before colonizing the rest of Europe was essentially unassailable, a done deal and virtually carved in rock, it now appears that extremely strong evidence is being uncovered that shows that this long held belief may in fact be incorrect.



A new discovery described by a team of international scientists, including Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontologist Christopher Beard, suggests that anthropoids -- the primate group that includes humans, apes, and monkeys -- "colonized" Africa, rather than originally evolving in Africa as has been widely accepted.



A number of scientists are uncovering evidence suggesting that anthropoids actually evolved in Asia and it was only later that they migrated towards, and then colonized Africa.



... the paleontologists suggest, it is more likely that several anthropoid species "colonized" Africa from another continent 39 million years ago -- the middle of the Eocene epoch. Since diversification would have occurred over extreme lengths of time, and likely leave fossil evidence, the new fossils combined with previous sampling in North Africa leads the paper's authors to surmise an Asian origin for anthropoids ...


Source: Science News


If their research is shown to be correct, there would have to be a massive re-writing of text books regarding the origins and early history of the anthropoid family. Makes you wonder what else that we've long held to be "factual" and "incontrovertible" in anthropolgy, archaeology and ancient history that may be potentially be based on invalid data and reasoning.
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posted on Oct, 28 2010 @ 06:29 AM
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posted on Oct, 28 2010 @ 02:08 PM
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Anthropoids include all apes and monkeys. You don't need to go so far back. Check this out.

Primate Evolution - In and out of Africa


More interestingly and controversially, this analysis further suggests that the lineage leading to the living hominoids dispersed out of Africa about twenty million years ago, and that the common ancestor of the living African apes, including humans, migrated back into Africa from Eurasia within about the past ten million years.

That was published in 1998, in the journal Current Biology. Never mind anthropoids having a possible Asian origin, hominoids--that is to say, apes--may have evolved there far more recently.

It is wrong to suggest that the Out of Africa theory is some sort of doctrine, 'carved in stone' as you put it. The following is from The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, pubished in 2004:


Our special relationship to chimpanzees and gorillas has been known only for a few decades. Before that, most anthropologists thought we were the sister group to all the apes, and therefore equally close to African and Asian apes. The consensus favoured Asia as the home of our late Miocene ancestors, and some authorities even picked out a particular fossil 'ancestor'...

That comes from the chapter entitled 'Rendezvous 3: Orang Utans'. Dawkins is saying that the Out of Africa theory is a relatively recent replacement for an Out of Asia theory. He ends the chapter by referring to the findings of the paper above, which suggests that part of hominoid evolution took place in Asia after all.

It seems that the ancestors of our ancestors' ancestors migrated out of Africa for a while. Our ancestors' ancestors returned. Africa, so far as we know, is the land of our ancestors.

Science is never written in stone.



 
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