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7.2 million-year-old fossils uncovered in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria places the origins of humans in the Eastern Mediterranean, not in Africa, and earlier than previously thought.
Researchers conclude that Graecopithecus freybergi represents the first pre-human to exist following the split from the last chimpanzee-human common ancestor.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200401111657.htm
http://archive.is/09Seg

800,000 year-old human fossil sheds light on one branch of the family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously thought possible.

The fossils were found in 1994 within stratigraphic level TD6 from the Gran Dolina cave site, one of the archaeological and paleontological sites of the Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain.