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Home Other Sciences Archaeology & Fossils May 22, 2017
The lower jaw of the 7.175 million year old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos
Vassilissis, Greece (today in metropolitan Athens). Credit: Wolfgang Gerber, University of The moon is about to do something it
Tübingen hasn't done in more than 150 years
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The common lineage of great apes and humans split several hundred
thousand years earlier than hitherto assumed, according to an international Study investigates impact of lions living
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research team headed by Professor Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg
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Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of
Tübingen and Professor Nikolai Spassov from the Bulgarian Academy of
Alien megastructure not the cause of
Sciences. The researchers investigated two fossils of Graecopithecus
dimming of the 'most mysterious star in
freybergi with state-of-the-art methods and came to the conclusion that they the universe' Jan 03, 2018 10
belong to pre-humans. Their findings, published today in two papers in the
journal PLOS ONE, further indicate that the split of the human lineage
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occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean and not - as customarily assumed - in side effects Jan 05, 2018 17
Africa.
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"While great apes typically have two or three separate and diverging roots,
the roots of Graecopithecus converge and are partially fused - a feature that Relevant PhysicsForums posts
is characteristic of modern humans, early humans and several pre-humans
including Ardipithecus and Australopithecus", said Böhme.
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A 7.24 million year old upper premolar of Graecopithecus from Azmaka, Bulgaria. Credit:
Wolfgang Gerber, University of Tübingen
The lower jaw, nicknamed 'El Graeco' by the scientists, has additional dental
root features, suggesting that the species Graecopithecus freybergi might
belong to the pre-human lineage. "We were surprised by our results, as pre-
humans were previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa," said Jochen
Fuss, a Tübingen PhD student who conducted this part of the study.
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An electron microscope image of a dust particle rounded by eolian transport. It originated in the
Sahara desert and was found in 7.2 million year old sediments in Greece. Credit: Ulf
Linnemann, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of
Tübingen
Moreover, the dusty sediment has a high content of different salts. "These
data document for the first time a spreading Sahara 7.2 million years ago,
whose desert storms transported red, salty dusts to the north coast of the
Mediterranean Sea in its then form," the Tübingen researchers said. This
process is also observable today. However, the researchers' modelling shows
that, with up to 250 grams per square meter and year, the amount of dust in
the past considerably exceeds recent dust loadings in Southern Europe more
than tenfold, comparable to the situation in the present-day Sahel zone in
Africa.
"The phytolith record provides evidence of severe droughts, and the charcoal
analysis indicates recurring vegetation fires," said Böhme. "In summary, we
reconstruct a savannah, which fits with the giraffes, gazelles, antelopes, and
rhinoceroses that were found together with Graecopithecus," Spassov added
"The incipient formation of a desert in North Africa more than seven million
years ago and the spread of savannahs in Southern Europe may have played
a central role in the splitting of the human and chimpanzee lineages," said
Böhme. She calls this hypothesis the North Side Story, recalling the thesis of
Yves Coppens, known as East Side Story.
The findings are described in two studies pubished in PLOS ONE titled
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Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientist A team of researchers led by freelance archaeologist John
Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme studied the development of Tibbles has found evidence suggesting that a woodhenge
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Judging on past theories based on single pieces of evidence this could be true, or not.
Present lineage guesses are based on little more evidence than is had here. When the
whole picture finally gets filled in many of these quaint guesses will be amusing in hindsight.
"An analysis of uranium, thorium, and lead isotopes in individual dust particles yields an age
between 0.6 and 3 billion years and infers an origin in Northern Africa"
BobSage: "Infer" is correct here. Analysis of three isotopes is sufficient to reduce the
probability of any other origin to zero.
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