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Originally Posted by dav3
because it suggests that our humans originated in europe instead of africa, life previously believed
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hmmm, I did not get the impression that this was their conclusion.
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"This leads us to a very important, very interesting conclusion," Carbonell said. It is this: that hominins which emerged from Africa and settled in the Caucasus eventually evolved into Homo antecessor, and that the latter populated Europe not 800,000 years ago, but at least 1.3 million years ago.
"This discovery of a 1.3 million-year-old fossil shows the process was accelerated and continuous; that the occupation of Europe happened very early and much faster than we had thought," Carbonell said.
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It isn't saying they did not originate from Africa, just earlier than thought.
At least, that is how I interpreted it.