Eighteen million years,
Ancient ape found in Egypt;
Human roots rethought.
Ancient ape found in Egypt;
Human roots rethought.
A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of humans and other modern apes first evolved. Scientists now suspect that North Africa and the Middle East, rather than East Africa, may have been the cradle of…