Based on fossil evidence discovered in Africa, the most widely accepted theory of human evolution says that our ancestors evolved there two million years ago, then they moved from Africa to Eurasia, and the split between modern humans and our last common ancestor occurred inside Africa, according to the most popular theory. However, is it possible that our last common ancestor actually lived on the western-most point of Eurasia, commonly referred to as Europe?

The majority of anthropologists studying humans continue to support the Out of Africa narrative. They simply cannot accept that any significant event in human evolution could have occurred outside of Africa. Any conflicting information appears extraordinary only if you already believe that humans were always confined to Africa, and Eurasia was never within the "zone of homonization," a concept that pertains to the process of human evolution.
Conventional wisdom holds that modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans all descended from an ancient hominin known as Homo heidelbergensis. Homo heidelbergensis, on the other hand, did not appear until 700,000 years ago, after the split between modern humans and the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Unlike homo neanderthalensis and homo sapiens, the Denisovans have not been assigned a species name.

This is because of the growing recognition that this species, which is a sister species to Neanderthals is actually a meta-population of Homo sapiens. This rationale also would mean that Neanderthals are also a homo sapiens meta-population, an implication that terrifies most paleo-anthropologists.

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