The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid Pliocene in Europe .
The oldest are first seen in Africa from least the mid Pleistocene , suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia .
The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid Pliocene in Europe , and are first seen in Africa from least the mid Pleistocene , suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia .