Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Archaeology: What's Hot Now: Out of Africa Hypothesis

Archaeology: What's Hot Now
These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week
Out of Africa Hypothesis
Aug 10th 2011, 10:00

Definition:

The Out of Africa or African Replacement Hypothesis argues that every living human being is descended from a small group in Africa, who then dispersed into the wider world displacing earlier forms such as Neanderthal. Major proponents of this theory are led by Chris Stringer.

The Out-of-Africa theory was bolstered in the early 1990s by research on mitochondrial DNA studies by Allan Wilson and Rebecca Cann which suggest that all humans ultimately descended from one female: the Mitochondrial Eve.

Leaving Africa: Three Theories

Sources

Gabunia, Leo, et al. 2001 Dmanisi and dispersal. Evolutionary Anthropology 10:158-170.

Klein, Richard G. 2008 Out of Africa and the Evolution of Human Behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology 17:267-281.

Rightmire, G. P. 2000 Middle Pleistocene humans from Africa. Human Evolution 15(1-2):63-74.

Rose, Jeffrey I. 2004 The Question of Upper Pleistocene Connections between East Africa and South Arabia. Current Anthropology 45(4):551-555.

Straus, Lawrence G. 1999 Iberia: Bridge or cul-de-sac? Implications of the Iberian record for the debate on the middle to upper paleolithic transition. Human Evolution 14(1-2):139-149.

Also Known As: African Replacement Hypothesis

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