• Question: what continent did the first homosapien/neandathol originate from

    Asked by anon-191707 to Kathryn, Graeme, Chris, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 7 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Anne Green

      Anne Green answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I don’t know. This is a question for a paleoanthropologist, scientists who study human prehistory (or google).

    • Photo: Kathryn

      Kathryn answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Your answer can be found here researched and written by other great scientist but essentially from central Europe and Asia

      http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.html

    • Photo: Chris Davies

      Chris Davies answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Good question, I thought most homosapiens and neanderthals originated from Africa. I recently did a 23 & me DNA kit which said something to that effect when tracing back your ancestry.

    • Photo: Agnes Wojtusiak

      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Neanderthals weren’t actually the same as us – they were closely related to homo sapiens, but not quite the same, as far as I know.
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      I think both, Kathryn and Chris are right – the earliest Homo Sapiens originated from Africa (see: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/) but the Neanderthals were around in Eurasia!
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      But like Anne said, I’m not a “paleoanthropologist”, so I don’t know everything about this – only what I looked up 🙂

    • Photo: Graeme Poole

      Graeme Poole answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I believe the theory is the first homosapiens come from Africa

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