re: Fossils in Greece Suggest Human Ancestors Evolved in Europe, Not Africa

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Out of Africa is clearly wrong.

It never made sense.

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Why?

This discovery says virtually nothing about the OOA theory for homo sapiens. This says that it was possible that certain hominid ancestors many millions of years before the homo genus was established may have lived in places other than Africa. That has been 1) postulated by a number of people, 2) isn't controversial at all that it could have been the case, and 3) completely consistent with the Out of Africa theory.

The genetic diversity within Africa all on its own means that OOA is overwhelmingly likely to have been the case for our species. There were likely early, tiny waves of migration into other parts of the world 100 - 200K years ago, especially Europe and the Near East, that died out, because the climate conditions were too harsh in much of the rest of the navigable (from Africa) world, but OOA would still have been the case.