An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors? 125
InfiniteZero writes "Researchers agree that our immediate ancestors, the upright walking apes, arose in Africa. But the discovery of a new primate that lived about 37 million years ago in the ancient swamplands of Myanmar bolsters the idea that the deep primate family tree that gave rise to humans is rooted in Asia. If true, the discovery suggests that the ancestors of all monkeys, apes, and humans—known as the anthropoids—arose in Asia and made the arduous journey to the island continent of Africa almost 40 million years ago."
Hmm, I thought they said Ocean Origin... (Score:5, Informative)
as we all came from a single cell organism.
Monkey Magic viewers (Score:1, Informative)
have known this for decades [youtube.com]
Re:I agree (Score:3, Informative)
Humans aren't that freaky. We are pretty much identical to chimps, with slightly better communication hardware.
Actually, I think that idea has pretty much been discredited with the discovery of "Ardi", the oldest direct human ancestor ever found, that was actually more like a human than a chimp. If anything, chimps evolved MORE from that common ancestor than humans did, despite the similarity in the genome.