Science
The vast majority of early hominoid fossil hunting has occurred in East Africa, where a trove of early fossils and lineages have been found.
Other regions in Africa have been less

explored for various reasons,
inspiring the question of whether a focus on East Africa has shaped opinions about where early hominoid evolution occurred. Al-Ashqar et al. now describe a Miocene ape from Egypt with crown hominoid affinities suggesting both that this lineage diverged before entering Eurasia and that a focus on one African region may have shaped our ideas about where hominoids first emerged (see the Perspective by Alba and Arias-Martorell). —Sacha Vignieri