Graecopithecus freybergi: Oldest Hominin Lived in Europe, not Africa

Since a source was not provided I asked for one. I'll add a "like totally!" at the end of this sentence so you can relate more to it.

 

Since when does a sarcastic snipe require a citation? More proof that Neanderthal DNA might not be the bragging point you think it is. They did lose the evolutionary battle, after all, becoming nothing more than a genetic afterthought. How very Aryan of them...

 

Except the location where Graecopithecus Freyberg remains were located wasn't savannah, 7.2 million years ago, which is when the fossils were carbon dated.
Graecopithecus freyberg

 

According to the article it was.

And I quote the OP article directly "
The researchers further showed that, contemporary to the development of the Sahara in North Africa, a savannah biome formed in Europe."

Read. For the love of god. Read.

 

Maybe, but considering the massive amount of evidence of pre-humans living in Africa at the same time, it'd take a lot more than a couple of bones to prove they originated in Europe. Such a theory would imply they moved from Europe into Africa almost immediately after they came into existence.

I'd personally find it more logical to assume, from just a couple of bones, that pre-humans originated in Africa, and small numbers of them moved out of Africa significantly earlier than originally thought.

Well, it is controversial. According to your article, the whole topic of the original Chimp-Human split is highly debated.

Besides, there are other reasons to be skeptical of the implications of this study, or to even be dismissive of its importance, other than some creepy political motivation you made up. Possibly the most obvious being that there were numerous species of pre-human hominids that were an evolutionary dead end. While it cannot be written off an an impossible human ancestor, it'd be very foolish to immediately jump on this as "the one."

I could imagine why one might be excited to do so, though, when there is, admittedly, so much potential for political gain from it.

Who claimed this issue was considered settled? Your own article implies the opposite.