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Mysterious Ancient Ape May Have Evolved a Key Human Trait

An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature ...
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Did the First Human Ancestors Arise in the Balkans and Then Migrate to Africa? A 7.2-Million-Year-Old Femur Found in Bulgaria Rewrites the History of Evolution

Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...
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Did the first human ancestor originate in the Balkans? – New fossil shows evidence of bipedalism

An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen, has discovered a 7.2 million-year-old Graecopithecus femur in Bulgaria An international ...
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8-million-year-old Greek fossils - the Europe origin theory

Upper and lower jaw fossils from Nikiti in northern Greece, dated to about 8 to 9 million years ago, were reanalyzed and ...
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New ancient ape from Türkiye challenges the story of human origins

A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved ...
New Scientist

The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

Apes may have been walking upright in what is now Bulgaria 7.2 million years ago. So say researchers who have found a leg bone that shows signs of bipedal walking. The leg bone is older than any known ...
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The Oldest Human Ancestor May Have Just Been Found Somewhere Very Unexpected

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...