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Fossils cast doubt on human lineage originating in Africa

Reuters: Science - Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 6:08pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature that lived 7.2 million years ago may fundamentally alter the understanding of human origins, casting doubt on the view that the evolutionary lineage that led to people arose in Africa.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=PDXlbedpN9E:e4-uSVmOUa8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=PDXlbedpN9E:e4-uSVmOUa8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=PDXlbedpN9E:e4-uSVmOUa8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=PDXlbedpN9E:e4-uSVmOUa8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=PDXlbedpN9E:e4-uSVmOUa8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/PDXlbedpN9E" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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