It has long been believed that our ancestors originated exclusively in Africa - but the skull of an 8.7-million-year-old ape found in Turkey suggests they first appeared in Europe.The skull is a newly identified ape named Anadoluvius turkae and is said to be the first known radiation of early hominines - a group that includes African apes and humans.Scientists claimed the skull proves that hominies evolved in western and central Europe and spent over five million years there before migrating to Africa from the Mediterranean.
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