Vesna Tenodi: Two perplexing big news items 1.) The Balkans—cradle of humanity? 2.) Australian Madjedbebe shelter—find of the Century?

 Vesna Tenodi: Two perplexing big news items 1.) The Balkans—cradle of humanity? 2.) Australian Madjedbebe shelter—find of the Century?

A new mainstream proposal now places the first ‘human ancestor’ not in Africa but in the Mediterranean.  According to the theory, the lineages of chimpanzees and humans may have ‘split’ several hundred thousand years earlier than previously assumed, says an international research team…