Footprints of 5.7 million years in Greece challenge evolution theory

A footprint of human ancestors dating to 5.7 million years in Crete, Greece is a serious challenge to human evolution.

Specifically, scientists with the discovery of fossils of Australopithecus in southern and eastern Africa in the mid-20th century have suggested that human origins originate in Africa.

Footprints of 5.7 million years old were discovered in Greece.

Recent discoveries in Africa such as Laetoli's 3.7-million-year-old footprint in Tanzania show that primates walk on their legs, reinforcing the notion that hominins (the Apostles are a person in the Subfamily including only humans, chimpanzees and their extinct ancestors, not only originated from Africa but also moved to Asia and Europe.

But the discovery of a 5.7 million-year-old footprint in Crete by an international research group just published this week makes the picture of our ancestral development much more complicated. .

This person's feet are very special, completely different from other terrestrial animals. The feet are long, five toes are short, without claws and have a larger toe than the rest of the toes. The fossil of Crete in Crete has the exact same shape and size that we currently have, which is never in the footsteps of monkeys. In short, from this form, scientists believe that the creature of Crete footprints belongs to a group of hominins developed before Tanzania's hominin group.

With footprints in Crete dating back to 5.7 million years, this hominin appears after the oldest hominin fossil, Sahelanthropus in Chad and dates back to Orrorin in Kenya. However, the most important thing is that it shows that the ancestors of humanity developed on a wider territory, not just in Africa as previously thought.