ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Genetic Variation, Speedstep, Prognathism
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Neandertals!) at shellfish and meat from antelopes, eland, and buffalo: some disagreement on hunting strategies and the hunting versus scavenging (big game) debate, magnificent wooden spears found in germany dating to 400,000 y. a. and butchered remains of horses. Recent find in siberia created a new mystery involving a potentially new species of hominin living contemporaneously with moderns and neandertals called the. Analysis of dna shows that they interbred with modern humans. Only a single cite in the altai region of southern siberia, a single molar and several fragmentary (finger) bones found. Three theories about the origins of modern humans continue to be debated. Single-origin theory suggest modern humans emerged in africa and then spread ot the rest of the old world repla(cid:272)i(cid:374)g reside(cid:374)t populatio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g nea(cid:374)dertals (cid:894)(cid:862)total. Replacement(cid:863) (cid:862)complete replacement(cid:863) or (cid:862)out of africa(cid:863) theor(cid:455)(cid:895) The multiregional theory or multiregional evolution suggests that modern humans evolved in various parts of the old world after homo erectus spread out of africa.
