ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Archaic Humans, Milford H. Wolpoff, Anatomically Modern Human

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

Document Summary

Suggests that human beings evolved all over the old world at the same time in all sorts of different regions. All anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic homo sapiens in a limited geographic area, specifically east and south africa. It is argued that anatomically modern humans first evolved in africa and all other archaic. In the 1980s-90s supported by early studies of mitochondrial dna. Mito dna is easier to study because you only inherit it from your mother, so it"s a way of studying maternal lines. They created linear maps of the mitochondrial dna, all the different lines could be traced back to a single mitochondrial dna variant in africa. Mitochondrial eve, we all descended from a population in africa a long time ago. The first dna studies of neanderthals was also argued that there is nothing in here that is related to modern humans.