Controversial new research suggests that modern humans evolved from apes in the Eastern Mediterranean — not from ancestors in Africa, as long believed by the majority of scientists, CBS News reports. The researchers' bold, potentially paradigm-shifting claims were published in two studies Tuesday in the journal PLOS One. The researchers base their arguments on analysis of two Graecopithecus freybergi ape fossils, a lower jaw found in Greece and an upper premolar found in Bulgaria, dating back 7.24 and 7.175 million years, respectively. The team argued that several dental features from these fossils — in particular, partially fused premolar roots on the lower jaw fossil— make a convincing...
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