Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and that bipedalism developed there around 6 million years ago. However, an international team of researchers say a newly discovered fossil thighbone from Bulgaria could rewrite the history of human origins.
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7+ million years ago.
Also, independent of that-article,
American Indians are genetically the result of multiple migrations from outside the Americas, mostly from Asia.
The population who came from Europe?
Mohawks, who came from roughly where we’ve placed Bulgaria, ttbomk ( many millenia ago, a population that ttbomk has no current European descendants? ).
HUGE difference between 7+M years & last-ice-age, AND I don’t buy that the out-of-Africa theory’s wrong, simply because of the genetic-diversity there: the entire rest of the world’s populations are a mere subset of African genetic-diversity.
But that Humankind’s upright-ancestors had escaped Africa much earlier, I definitely do believe, now.
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