400,000-yr-old remains show 'humans evolved from Middle East, not Africa'

[Sify News]   A new discovery of 400,000-yr-old human remains has raised doubts as to whether the first humans evolved out of Africa....Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University have found eight human-like teeth found in the Qesem cave near Rosh Ha'Ayin, which belong to the Middle Pleistocene Age - and therefore are the earliest remains of homo sapiens yet discovered. These findings by Professor Avi Gopher and Dr Ran Barkai indicate that modern man did not originate in Africa as previously believed, but in the Middle East.  More...