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The Multiregional Continuity Model of human evolution contends that after Homo erectus left Africa and dispersed into other portions of the Old World, regional populations slowly evolved into modern humans. This theory contrasts with the Out of Africa Model, which asserts that modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa, migrated into Eurasia and replaced all populations which had descended from Homo erectus.

Resources in This Category

• Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution

  http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/
  An overview of human evolution, summarizing current thinking and describing the fossil evidence for Australopithecus and Homo.

• Mitochondrial DNA Clarifies Human Evolution

  http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/ingman.html
  Technical article describing recent DNA studies and evolution hypotheses, by Max Ingman.

• Multiregional Evolution

  http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/multiregional.html
  Summary of claims from the polygenic side of the modern human origins debate, by James Q. Jacobs.

• Nature: Humans Did Come Out of Africa, Says DNA

  http://www.nature.com/nsu/001207/001207-8.html
  Evidence that we are all descended from a single ancestral group that lived in Africa.

• Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa

  http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html
  Analysis in support of the Out of Africa model, by Dr. Donald Johanson.

• PINTUBI-1: A Modern Australoid Points to the Past

  http://www.canovan.com/HumanOrigin/PINTUBI-1/PINTUBI-1.htm
  Article by Jim Vanhollebeke describing an Australian hominid skull, as evidence for the multiregional theory.

• Time: Rewriting Prehistory

  http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054949,00.html
  A team of researchers concludes that Chinese, like everyone else, came out of Africa.

 

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