Europe may have been mankind's birthplace, not Africa: Study
A study of the oldest pre-human fossils indicates that the split of the human lineage from apes occurred in the eastern Mediterranean and not in Africa, as previously known. The team analysed human-like teeth of two 72-lakh-year-old specimens of an ape-like creature Graecopithecus freybergi. Researchers claim earliest humans started evolving in Europe two lakh years before they started in Africa.