Original sentence: Fossil evidence found in Germany in the 1980s was determined to be about 16.5 million years old, some 1.5 million years older than similar species from East Africa.The discoveries suggest that the early ancestors of the hominids (the family of great apes and humans) migrated to Eurasia from Africa about 17 Ma, just before these two continents were cut off from each other by an expansion of the Mediterranean Sea.The evolutionary history of the primates can be traced back for some 85 million years, as one of the oldest of all surviving placental mammal groups
Edited sentence: ) to be about 16.5 million years old, some 1.5 million years older than similar species from East Africa.Fossil evidence found in Germany in the 1980s was determined(how.Funny how scientists talk about theories as if they're fact.The discoveries suggest(there's that word again) that the early ancestors of the hominids (the family of great apes and humans) migrated to Eurasia from Africa about 17 Ma, just before these two continents were cut off from each other by an expansion of the Mediterranean Sea.The mythical evolutionary history of the primates can be traced back for some 85 million years, as one of the oldest of all surviving placental mammal groups.by the same method that stated a living cow was 45 million years old