The human family tree may not have taken root in Africa after all, claim scientists, after finding that its ancestors may have travelled from Asia.

While it is widely accepted that man evolved in Africa, in fact its immediate predecessors may have colonised the continent after developing elsewhere, the study says.

The claims are made after a team unearthed the fossils of anthropoids – the primate group that includes humans, apes and monkeys – in Libya's Dur At-Talah....