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Y'all migrated out of Africa like the rest of us.
~~Turns out it was more in central Europe according to the latest discovery~~, but we are all human regardless of where we started.
Edit: Never mind, it was only 1.4 million years ago: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-may-have-been-used-by-early-humans-over-1-million-years-ago
The second part still stands though.
What was more in central Europe?
The earliest record of humans, it was pretty recently discovered.
I'm gonna need a link for that cause that makes no sense at all in the context of all other finds.
AFAIK, the "out-of-africa" hypothesis isn't so much based on skeleton findings.
It's more based on some thoughts. One of them is that africa has a "high genetic variability" which they see as proof that humanity originated there, even though i doubt the soundness of that argument.
The second reason is some kind of racism: "if africans are really inferior beings, that must be because life originated there and emigrated and africans simply stayed behind in both space and development." (not my thoughts)
Ironically in the 19th centuries Europeans were all clamouring to have definitive proof that Homo Sapiens evolved within their borders to prove that they were the greatest and most fully evolved humans.
Out of Africa had to work pretty hard to become accepted.
And is very much based on skeletal records.
Nice down vote, you can go find it yourself now (or remain ignorant, I don't really care if you learn anything new or not).
That’s unfortunate, since many of would find that fascinating reading. I remember reading something similar but more like: there was a wave of migration to central Europe much earlier than expected
Everything I just looked at still puts Affrica as origin
Although I don’t remember reading …. Each wave of migration out of Africa was different hominids. They all coexisted for a long time but eventually the hominids from the last wave succeeded and the others died out
Looks like it might have just been a poorly written headline but the earliest stuff I've heard in the past was either Africa or Middle East:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-may-have-been-used-by-early-humans-over-1-million-years-ago
Do you mind providing a source ? I've been reading fascinating fiction on the subject of early humans (by Jean M Auel) and I'd love to know more
I might have misread it but I'd previously heard Africa and somewhere in the middle east (Ur, current day Iraq was a big city)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-may-have-been-used-by-early-humans-over-1-million-years-ago
What is this record of humans that you speak of?
Everything I'm finding on Google is saying Morocco, with scientists suggesting we probably evolved all over Africa.
Africa/Middle east is what I'd heard previously but I think the article I last read was a misunderstanding of this:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-may-have-been-used-by-early-humans-over-1-million-years-ago