Was Greece the birthplace of humanity?

[Thryleon]

@LP let it go.
@Thry If that old gag caused any offence, I apologise sincerely and  unresevedly. I must say,  I have repeated that gag in front of my Greek mates and others countless times and I have never had an adverse reaction. That doesnt excuse any offence it may have caused, just putting it into context. Again, sorry.

GIC, im a big boy and I can take it so I accept your apology, but I am finding that I am less tolerant of this attitude as I grow older as we were conditioned to accept casual racism in the form of "light hearted humour" and are being told repeatedly that these sorts of comments are off limits towards some ethnic groups and not others these days, so I feel that perhaps these comments are no longer acceptable on any level and that we all need to start cutting this off here.  After all, someone goes after the greeks, the greeks then go after another ethnic group and before you know it, we are wondering why comparing Adam Goodes to King Kong is being uttered on radio.  You cut off casual racism, and then the real hurtful stuff gets the same treatment.

Sorry to disappoint Blues supporters with Greek heritage but that discovery is just one of many primate ancestors found in Africa, around the Mediterranean and in Asia.  It's a side branch or evolutionary dead end and is not ancestral to modern humans.

No dissapointment DJC, that sample may or may not be the missing link, we seem to revise history over and over and over again, and realistically if anyone were to claim that human ancestry began anywhere, hasnt researched the globes history well enough to know that originally the world was one connected land mass.  You could find fossils of pre humans in Antarctica FFS.