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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But they could cross it heading south?

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