re: First human ancestors came from Europe not Africa 7.2 million-year-old fossils indicate

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The idea that humans originated in sub-saharan africa and spread from there never made much sense to me. The sahara desert is nearly the size of the united states. No primitive people were crossing that desert to populate other lands. They would have been cooked and died.

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The desert formed about the same time as the first hominids developed.

And this story is very interesting but doesn't mean we can't trace our roots back to africa. Just b.c this hominid formed in greece region, doesn't mean that homo ergastor did.

source: Wife volunteers as evolution educator, although her speciality isn't hominids.