Now the oldest skull was found in Europe, doesn't that debunk our everyone came from Africa theory?

Question

Recently the oldest skull dated was found in Europe, what does that mean for our "we all came from Africa" theories?

Answer 1

Constellation has put it very succinctly, except for....

There are A LOT of DNA studies that show OOA to be impossible, they are just getting ignored by the press. There are plenty of geneticists now backing a 'weak Eden' theory, that suggests some hybridisation with Homo Erectus and Neanderthals. Apparently the lack of Neandertahl DNA is seen as pretty meaningless now.

http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpre...

http://home.entouch.net/dmd/hegene.htm

Answer 2

It was the oldest skull found, not the oldest skull that existed. We still have other evidence for a diaspora from Africa that leads us to believe it was the origin of the human race. Human skulls of course aren't the only thing we base evidence of human history on.

Answer 3

Multi-regional is backed up with fossils and OOA is backed up with DNA.  There isn't a clear reason for the difference.  Some say that the OOA people killed off the Multi-regional people.

Answer 4

DNA evidence suggests that any human fossil found outside of Africa from more than 150,000 years ago, has no living descendant today.  So this recent find in Europe dating to 1.2 million years ago, is from an extinct line and does not change the currently accepted "Out of Africa" theory.

Answer 5

It means, never hold theories at 100%

Answer 6

No it just means that we all came from Africa a later earlier than we thought.  It was the oldest skull in Europe, not the oldest skull ever.

Answer 7

Fossil records for all hominids is still virtually nill, like compared to the dinosaurs. So there may be species we have not found and now we are even discovering that more then one species lives at the same times in history. Like Home Erectus and Homo Egaster. So I think we will never know the exact time line as long as we keep digging.

Answer 8

The latest thinking is that human precursors left Africa more than once; genetic tracing indicates that all modern humans share African ancestry- i.e the lines of older people on the other continents died out.

Answer 9

You misread the news. What was found was not the oldest skull, but the oldest human skull thus far found in Europe.

The find doesn't change the best current thinking that humans first evolved in Africa, then spread out.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life...

Answer 10

Looks like icabod got you there. Older skulls are in Africa, so I guess it's back to the drawing board.

Answer 11

Late last month the skull of what was claimed as "Europe's oldest human" was presented. "Dated at between 1.1 and 1.2 million years of age the fossil "...is the oldest human fossil yet found in Western Europe," said Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro"

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php...

The species is named Homo antecessor but older remains of this species have been found in  Dmanisi, Georgia. It's unclear if this is the same species as Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") or somehow related.

In Africa Australopithecus afarensis is dated to  3.9 and 3.0 million years ago. The first to leave Africa was Homo erectus  

the species existed between 1.8 million and 300,000 years ago.

Claims of "Oldest skull" often are qualifed as "in Europe" or in some other ways.

Homo antecessor or Homo heidelbergensis are dated after Homo erectus left Africa

Answer 12

They found one small piece of a jawbone and a few teeth. That proves they found one small piece of a jawbone and a few teeth. Nothing else.

Evolutionists employ a lot of wishful thinking when searching for evidence. When they found a strange tooth in Nebraska (my home state) they created a whole person AND HIS WIFE from it and called it Nebraska Man. It was found later to have come from an extinct pig. I hope they don't try the same nonsense with this find.

There is no reliable dating method. Each one is based on many assumptions. When dating things of known age they get wild numbers. So how can they be sure when they find something of an unknown age?