ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Brain Size, External Occipital Protuberance, Stone Tool
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Anta01 understanding humans: introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology. Chapter 12 : the origin and dispersal of modern humans. Closely associated with milford wolpoof (paleoanthropologist u. Of michigan: suggest that local populations in europe, asia and africa continued their indigenous evolutionary development from premodern middle pleistocene forms to anatomically modern humans. Most recent data suggest that multiregional models no longer tell us much about the origins of modern humans; nor do they seem to provide much information regarding the dispersal of modern h. sapiens. Emphasizes modern humans first evolved in africa and only later dispersed to other parts of the world, where they replaced those hominins already living in these other regions. 2 versions of replacement models have been proposed: 1) emphasized complete replacement. Proposes: anatomically modern populations arose in africa within the last 200. 000 years and then migrated from africa, completely replacing populations in.
