Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find

Re:Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scienti... by steve_adams_86 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:03AM (#17187695)

Interesting, but what's to say we won't find older hominid bones in Africa next year? Is it wise to be so certain that Europe was the birthplace of mankind based on a single discovery? Really, the same goes for Africa. Why are we deducing that each oldest bone means _that_ is where humans came from?

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Re:Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scienti... by TorKlingberg on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:10AM (#17187746)

Also, when we say the birth of "mankind", do we mean Homo Sapiens, or the Homo genus as a whole?

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Re:Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scienti... by INTPenis on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:09AM (#17187734)

Also who's to say someone didn't carry the bones to Europe as relics? Bones simply surviving for thousands of years is amazing but unless they're found deep inside a known burial ground we really have no idea if that was where they became bones.

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Re:Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scienti... by inks on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:33PM (#17192798)

The earliest Homosapien bones were discovered in Israel: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/controversial-fos...

Though it’s still not a disprovement of the OoA theory but it places the time scale for homosapien much earlier.

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Re:Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scienti... by s_dev on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:08AM (#17187733)

I guess we'll never "know" but rather wherever the oldest human bones/remains are is the most likely knowable starting place of humanity. If the evidence leads us to somewhere else we'll have to keep updating the theory.

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