If these findings become widely accepted, then this effectively rewrites the origins of human history (for now).
I anticipate that resistance to the acceptance of this discovery will be stronger outside of science/academia than inside, if it even gets much publicity outside of a small smattering of articles. I'm sure (if the findings hold up to further scrutiny), that some of the "old guard" will resist it, as several have devoted much of their research and academic lives to believing something else. But, that's kind of true of people in almost all areas of life. Many of us hate finding out that we're wrong.
If these findings hold up, then this is a pretty exciting, interesting find.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find
The discovery of the creature, named Graecopithecus freybergi, and nicknameded ‘El Graeco' by scientists, proves our ancestors were already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.
An international team of researchers say the findings entirely change the beginning of human history and place the last common ancestor of both chimpanzees and humans - the so-called Missing Link - in the Mediterranean region.
I anticipate that resistance to the acceptance of this discovery will be stronger outside of science/academia than inside, if it even gets much publicity outside of a small smattering of articles. I'm sure (if the findings hold up to further scrutiny), that some of the "old guard" will resist it, as several have devoted much of their research and academic lives to believing something else. But, that's kind of true of people in almost all areas of life. Many of us hate finding out that we're wrong.
If these findings hold up, then this is a pretty exciting, interesting find.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find
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