>>76230139nta but no, no it wasn't. Graecopithecus is not enough evidence when it's just a tooth and part of a jaw. And even then, it points to an origin of hominids but not homo sapiens sapiens via Australopthicines.
The problem is there's actually 2 OOA theories and people conflate both of them as a single theory. What I'm talking about is OOA 1 which is a lot more concrete. The one people usually are talking about is OOA 2 which has to do with proto-humans 300-400k years ago and that one is significantly less concrete as stone tools have existed in China for at least 2.1MY.
You also have to keep in mind that Neantherthals and Denisovans were not modern humans as we think of them and evolved separately, and it was through modern interbreeding with them that HSS became what they did in what's now Europe and Asia.
Phase Connect, here's a monkey
