Publication Date:
2001-02-24
Description:
The replacement theory of modern human origins stipulates that populations outside of Africa were replaced by a new African species of modern humans. Here we test the replacement theory in two peripheral areas far from Africa by examining the ancestry of early modern Australians and Central Europeans. Analysis of pairwise differences was used to determine if dual ancestry in local archaic populations and earlier modern populations from the Levant and/or Africa could be rejected. The data imply that both have a dual ancestry. The diversity of recent humans cannot result exclusively from a single Late Pleistocene dispersal.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wolpoff, M H -- Hawks, J -- Frayer, D W -- Hunley, K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jan 12;291(5502):293-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382, USA. wolpoff@umich.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11209077" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa
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Animals
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Australia
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*Biological Evolution
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Czech Republic
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*Fossils
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*Hominidae/anatomy & histology
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Humans
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Indonesia
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Israel
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Male
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Matched-Pair Analysis
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*Paleontology
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Skull/*anatomy & histology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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