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Summary of the Out-Of-Africa debate, by Dr. George Johnson.
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Human evolution alive with controversy The scientists studying human origins are engaged in lively debate Science is by its nature a feisty enterprise, with researchers evaluating each other's work not always kindly and constantly seeking better ways to test ideas against the hard reality of...Technical article describing recent DNA studies and evolution hypotheses, by Max Ingman.
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"Mitochondrial DNA Clarifies Human Evolution by Max Ingman A studies of several populations suggest that modern humans: originated in Africa appeared in one founding population evolved around 170,000 years ago migrated to other parts of the world to replace other hominids more on author May 2001 Mitochondrial DNA...Article about Mungo Man's support for the regional continuity theory.
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News in Science Further controversy on human origins 16/01/2001 Further controversy on human origins Tuesday, 16 January2001 Mungo man analysis of DNA from this fossil announced last week reignited a controversy over the origins of modern humans. New research supports the theory that the ancestors of modern humans came...Summary of claims from the polygenic side of the modern human origins debate, by James Q. Jacobs.
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Multiregional Evolution Wolpoff argued the polygenic or multiregional side of the modern human origins debate. They maintain that there is no single recent dispersal for modern humans, that humans originated in Africa and then slowly developed their modern forms in every area...Analysis in support of the Out of Africa model, by Dr. Donald Johanson.
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"Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa by Donald Johanson, Ph.D. He is best known for his evolution: investigating human evolution Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? By Donald Johanson An ActionBioscience.org original article articlehighlights There are two theories about the origin of modern humans: 1) they arose...Transcript of an interview with the Director of the Human Origins Project.
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Online NewsHour: Rethinking Evolution December 13, 1996 In the last few years it came to light that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens (modern man) walked the earth at the same time. Now a study in the journal Science reports that Homo erectus, an ancestor of Homo sapiens, lived...Evidence that we are all descended from a single ancestral group that lived in Africa.
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A team of researchers concludes that Chinese, like everyone else, came out of Africa.
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TIMEasia.com Cover: Rewriting Prehistory 1/17/2000 A research contradicts theories, based on the Peking Man fossil, that hold Chinese to be the earliest modern humans. Rewriting Prehistory A team of researchers concludes that Chinese, like everyone else, came out of Africa By ANTHONY SPAETH According to...Article on Nanjing Man's role in the multi-regionalism theory.
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EXN.ca History Every so often science is forced to question the status quo and to rethink the views that dominate our world. And sometimes, it takes only a small event to trigger such major change, such as Galileo's telescope, Darwin's trip to...Articles and theories, by Andrew Giles.
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Multiregional Return to main index page C O N T E N T S (Other page: Did the selective advantages of language drive a reduction in sequence variation in humans CLICK ON TITLE TO GO STRAIGHT TO ARTICLE The human Y...The 'out of Africa' model of human evolution is criticised.
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Index Magnon paintings are likenesses DID LANGUAGE REDUCE SEQUENCE VARIATION an explanation for low sequence variation in humans and an alternative to the Out of Africa theory MULTIREGIONAL EVOLUTION There are alternative ways to explain the facts that are claimed to...Article describing an Australian hominid skull, as evidence for the multiregional theory.
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THE CANOVANOGRAM RESEARCH PALEOANTHROPOLOGY REPORT. July, 2002 Paleoanthropology is the study of mankind with respect to his prehistoric past. In this report, we discuss a skull from Australia (PINTUBI-1) and the implications of it's special morphologies (characteristic structure Our previous installment, KOW SWAMP IS IT HOMO ERECTUS...Paleoanthropology article about the Australian hominid fossils, with several illustrations.
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