Everything we might know about the history of human evolution could be wrong, with scientists now postulating that Africa may not be the birthplace of humankind. In a shocking reversal, scientists now say that The earliest hominids lived in Europe, not Africa, according to recent fossil discoveries. Remarkably, The discovery of an 8.7 million-year-old fossil ape calls into question long-accepted theories about human origins. This discovery could not only cause a paradigm shift in our understanding of human evolution, but it also pushes the date of hominin arrival on Earth back much further than previously thought. The last common ancestor of chimps and humans marks the beginning of human and chimp evolution. Moreover, When it comes to reconstructing the nature of our ape ancestors, fossil apes are critical. Fossil apes can teach us important lessons about ape and human evolution, such as the nature of our last common ancestor. Though it's difficult to believe, apes lived in Europe 12 million years ago. With wide Africa-like savannahs to roam, hunt, and forage in, it was a good place to be. However, The environment then began to change around 10 million years ago, and Droughts became severe as the Sahara formed and rapidly spread. More than eight million years ago, the beginnings of a desert in North Africa and the spread of savannahs in Southern Europe may have played a key role in the separation of the human and chimp lineages. Dust storms transported salty dust from the Sahara to the northern Mediterranean coastline, just as they do today, according to sediments found near the locations of these fossils and an analysis of uranium, thorium and led isotopes within them. Indeed, new evidence shows that the storms were a much more destructive phenomenon at that time, much more than previously believed. Chimps in Europe and Africa would have been separated for 500,000 to 700,000 years due to the Sahara desert barrier, causing them to evolve in radically different ways.
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