If there are no primates...monkies, gorillas, orangutans, indigenous to Australia, Asia or the Americas...?

Question

How could Hominids have evolved from anywhere but Africa?

Answer 1

Great Apes evolved in Africa & a very few made it to Asia... I see no evidence hominids evolved anywhere but Africa. The Apes found in Asia are genetically much further away from Sapien than any African Ape... therefore evidence for hominid evolution in Africa is overwhelming. If one is rational, then the place for hominid evolution must be Africa.

Answer 2

Primates are distributed world wide.The only places where they are not found is North America, Europe and Australia. Climatic factors exp[lain the first two, 60 miles of water the last.

The hominids include humans and the apes. They are part of the family Hominidae, of the order Primate. Humans did not "descend from the apes" We share a common ancestor with them and are considered "cousins." Apes are found in Afirc and Southeast Asia. Chimpanzees, our closest relative, share a 99% match in DNA. In protein sequencing, the match is closer, no differences at all. When man's protein sequencing is compared to gorillas there is only two differences in the match with hemoglobin, red blood cells and amino acids. Lastly the antgen-antibody reaction for humans is 97% from chimpanzees compared to 50% for baboons. In other words we're related. DNA is today used to show how closely people are related (as in determining paternity) and to determine if people were at a crime scene (as a means to determine guilt or innocence). It also is used to determine how long ago species split off from each other.

The split from the apes is put at 8 million years ago. That's based both on the fossil remains and the know rate of change for DNA. The first bipedal hominids (walking on two feet) is 4 million years ago. The first known bipedal hominids were the Australopithecus. ("Southern Ape") There are several known types and the exact lineage is still being argued.

Fossil evidence shows that many of man's ancestors were in Africa. The new World primates have been isolated so perhaps 40 million years and have evolved quite differently then those in Africa. It's theorized that humans developed in Africa then spread out from there. An opposing theory is that there was extensive contact been the regional human populations outside of Africa and modern man arose from that contact.

Answer 3

I have not heard anyone claim lately that they evolved anywhere else, but let us suppose someone wanted to make that claim .
Primates are found in Asia and the Americas, as well as Africa. The fact that the oldest hominid fossils have been found in Africa may be due to the conditions that not only preserved them longer, but has brought them to the surface where they can be found, rather than any special role of the African continent in hominid evolution.
Besides, Africa has not been a separate continent at all times. Hominid evolution may have begun at a time when migration between what later became separate continents was still possible, allowing different hominid genera to evolve independently of one another. Pure speculation on my part, but not inconceivable.

Answer 4

Actually, I think you are all incorrect. Humans are indigenous to all those places and last I heard, we are primates. Since humans and our hominid ancestors probably left Africa over a million years ago, it is possible that they co-evolved in Eurasia as well. It is even remotely possible that Australia or even N. America were reached. The out of Africa hypotheses has been in and out of favor and is currently in favor. I personally think it is silly to think there is a one way road out of Africa. People will say that the oldest modern human was found in Africa and that DNA evidence points to Africa but they seldom account for migration, and the obvious lack of sufficient evidence to be sure and they don't define when humans became human. In the Miocene, apes apparently left Africa and moved to Eurasia where they further evolved and their ancestors apparently moved back to Africa. Any thing that interfers with "out of Africa" gets trashed and most related theories therefore pay homage to it sometimes to the point where it becomes assinine.

Answer 5

1) The gibbon and the orangutan are native to Asia.

2) Ceboid monkeys are native to South America.

3) Back in the day, there WERE apes in both North America and Europe, but they went extinct long before the hominin split.

4) But you're right, all evidence shows that hominins DID originate in Africa.

Answer 6

I am astounded that you should say that. Haven't you, in your studies, ever heard of the King Kong Dinosaur which roamed around the planet when it was all joined together (the land masses) and it could swim too and fly a little bit and it looked a bit like a gorilla. We have one in the Sydney Museum. It was discovered at a "dig" in the Australian outback in far Northern Queensland?????? and to this day they can't work out how his King Kong dinosaur managed to dodge that comet as it held on in pockets all around the planet and played a part in our evolution too. Wasn't it on record that the Yeti could be descended from King Kong and there is also a history/legend of the giant swamp monster in billabongs in Australia passed down by the indigenous people. In legend he was know as "The scary man billabong brutalis". It is also written that he and his kind were the ones that scared the poor little people (the ones they found in Flores) off the mainland of Australia and as they were his favourite diet he sort of died out well before the whites made landfall at Botany Bay but did manage to infiltrate in the aboriginal population for many many moons after their ancestors first arrived on this land after their gradual evolution out of Africa and had a part in mingling with their DNA as the King Kong scary billabong brutalis man managed also to achieve all over the planet but in a small way as wherever those early people out of Africa on tourist visas settled he was invariably lurking in copses close by.

Answer 7

Icabod isn't quite right, there are none in NewZealand and many of the Islands.