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Multiple dispersals and modern human origins

Lahr, Marta Mirazon, Foley, Robert·1994·Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews
DOI 10.1002/evan.1360030206
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Despite a massive endeavour, the problem of modern human origins not only remains unresolved, but is usually reduced to “Out of Africa” versus multiregional evolution. Not all would agree, but evidence for a single recent origin is accumulating. Here, we want to go beyond this debate and explore within the “Out of Africa” framework an issue that has not been fully addressed: the mechanism by which modern human diversity has developed. We believe there is no clear rubicon of modern Homo sapiens, and that multiple dispersals occurred from a morphologically variable population in Africa. Pre‐existing African diversity is thus crucial to the way human diversity developed outside Africa. The pattern of diversity—behavioural, linguistic, morphological and genetic—can be interpreted as the result of dispersals, colonisation, differentiation and subsequent dispersals overlaid on former population ranges. The first dispersals would have originated in Africa from where two different geographical routes were possible, one through Ethiopia/Arabia towards South Asia, and one through North Africa/Middle East towards Eurasia.

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Metadata

Authors
Lahr, M. M., & Foley, R.
Venue
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1994-01
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
48-60
ISSN
  • 1060-1538 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-6505
DOI
10.1002/evan.1360030206
OpenAlex
W2137029932
Cited by
423
References
91
FWCI
41.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 4170 d)

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