“The team believe that evolution of hominids may have been driven by dramatic environmental changes which sparked the formation of the North African Sahara more than seven million years ago and pushed species further North.

They found large amounts of Saharan sand in layers dating from the period, suggesting that it lay much further North than today.

Professor Böhme added: “Our findings may eventually change our ideas about the origin of humanity. I personally don’t think that the descendants of Graecopithecus die out, they may have spread to Africa later. The split of chimps and humans was a single event. Our data support the view that this split was happening in the eastern Mediterranean - not in Africa.

"If accepted, this theory will indeed alter the very beginning of human history.”

However some experts were more skeptical about the findings.

Retired anthropologist and author Dr Peter Andrews, formerly at the Natural History Museum in London, said: “It is possible that the human lineage originated in Europe, but very substantial fossil evidence places the origin in Africa, including several partial skeletons and skulls.

"I would be hesitant about using a single character from an isolated fossil to set against the evidence from Africa."”

“Baby Lucas’s parents, identified only as Sandrina V. and Peter S., are on trial for the death of their child, local media reported.

The parents, both in their 30s, own a health food store in Beveren, Belgium. They fed their son oat milk, rice milk, buckwheat milk, semolina milk, and quinoa milk because they thought he had an eating disorder, the couple’s lawyer said in court, The Independent reported.

“Lucas had an eating disorder. He got cramps when he was fed with a bottle and his parents tried out alternatives,” their lawyer, Karine Van Meirvenne said.

The alternative diet led to Lucas weighing only 9 pounds, closer to the average weight of a newborn baby than a seven-month-old, before he died on June 6, 2014.

The store’s customers reported that the child appeared “emaciated” and “gray,” local media reported.

The baby was reportedly gasping for air in the days leading up to his death, and prosecutors said his parents never sought proper medical care for their child.

“We never went with Lucas to a doctor because we never noticed anything unusual,” the boy’s father said.

An autopsy revealed he was dehydrated, and his stomach completely empty when he died. “

BABIES HAVE  DIFFERENT DIETARY NEEDS THAN ADULTS DO!!!

IF THEY AREN’T EATING TAKE THEM TO A DOCTOR FUCKING HIPPIES!!!!!!

Unless you’re qualified don’t diagnose your kids, even then DON’T DIAGNOSE YOUR OWN KIDS