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Fuss / Spassov / Begun / Böhme : Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe. - In: PLoS ONE 12(5). - 2017 :

Robson · Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 6:29 pm Post subject:

It is an interesting hypothesis, evidencing that a major hominin split happened outside Africa. However, during the Messinian Event, the nowadays Europe was technically an extension of Africa, once the Mediterranean (the Tethys Ocean until a bit before) was then a chain of salty lakes, and all the region was a continuity of the African savanna, and when the Neogene ended around 3 Mya, all the great apes and hominins in Eurasia disappeared because of the climate cooling, and Africa (and South Asia for some apes) became again the homeland of these species, Its descendants became cosmopolite only when the genus Homo (Homo Erectus and anatomically modern humans) appeared

Böhme M, Spassov N, Ebner M, Geraads D, Hristova L, Kirscher U, et al. (2017) Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177347.

Robson · Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 6:29 pm Post subject:

It is an interesting hypothesis, evidencing that a major hominin split happened outside Africa. However, during the Messinian Event, the nowadays Europe was technically an extension of Africa, once the Mediterranean (the Tethys Ocean until a bit before) was then a chain of salty lakes, and all the region was a continuity of the African savanna, and when the Neogene ended around 3 Mya, all the great apes and hominins in Eurasia disappeared because of the climate cooling, and Africa (and South Asia for some apes) became again the homeland of these species, Its descendants became cosmopolite only when the genus Homo (Homo Erectus and anatomically modern humans) appeared

Böhme M, Spassov N, Ebner M, Geraads D, Hristova L, Kirscher U, et al. (2017) Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177347.

Robson · Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 6:30 pm Post subject:

It is an interesting hypothesis, evidencing that a major hominin split happened outside Africa. However, during the Messinian Event, the nowadays Europe was technically an extension of Africa, once the Mediterranean (the Tethys Ocean until a bit before) was then a chain of salty lakes, and all the region was a continuity of the African savanna, and when the Neogene ended around 3 Mya, all the great apes and hominins in Eurasia disappeared because of the climate cooling, and Africa (and South Asia for some apes) became again the homeland of these species, Its descendants became cosmopolite only when the genus Homo (Homo Erectus and anatomically modern humans) appeared

Böhme M, Spassov N, Ebner M, Geraads D, Hristova L, Kirscher U, et al. (2017) Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177347.