Alrighty well I was watching through some youtube vids and came upon ones discussing a hominid fossil find from Europe dated about 7 million years ago. Graecopithecus. And after listening to people crow about it I found myself wanting to do a lil something so I thought I'd write this up.

Firstly I've seen a lot of stuff with the Tag of basically saying humans came from Europe and not Africa. That's wrong. This fossil find DOES prove that Hominids even Early ones tended to range much farther than previously believed. However the Archiac features of Homo Floresiensis, referred to as the hobbit, already suggested this. But just because we had a relative in Europe it does not therefore follow that WE are descended from it specifically.

Secondly even if this hominid were the root of the hominid family tree it still doesn't change the rest. Modern humans most definitely originated in Africa. Not just due to the fossil evidence but the genetic evidence as well. No where else on Earth will you find as wide a range of human genetic diversity. This means that humans have been established in Africa the longest.

So in the end all these Vid and article headers reek of a combination of click bait and a failure to understand the science and they miss the cool implications of this. Now with two examples of Hominids found far afield from Africa LONG ago it opens the door to the possibility of them having ranged farther. Of there being all kinds of as yet undiscovered cousins in the Fossil record across the globe waiting for us to discover them and continue to piece together intricate tapestry of human history. From the line that would go on to be us to the myriad other branches that took their own path and simply aren't here today.