Scientists say we’ve been looking in the wrong place for human origins

Researchers report that a newly uncovered fossil ape from northern Egypt is changing how scientists view early hominoid evolution. The discovery suggests that the closest ancestors of modern apes may have originated in northern Africa, rather than in East Africa, which has long been the main focus of fossil research. "[The] findings […] confirm that paleontologists might have been looking for crown-hominoid ancestors in the wrong place," write David Alba and Júlia Arias-Martorell i...