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An intermediate model between RAO and MRE is the <a href="/wiki/Assimilation_model" title="Assimilation model">Assimilation model</a> (AM). </p><p>The MRE model is often misinterpreted as the <a href="/wiki/Racial_polyphyletism" title="Racial polyphyletism">polyphyletism, or evolutionary polygenism</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Race" title="Race">races</a>, when as Multiregionalists explain: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Because of the key role played by genic exchanges in this model, multiregional evolution means that no human species, subspecies, or race can have multiple 'independent origins' in different regions.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Multiregionalism denies a speciation event in the last 2 mya, and sinks <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_erectus" title="Homo erectus">H. erectus</a></i>, archaic and modern humans into a single lineage and species.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> It describes human evolution spanning the Pleistocene as a "trellis" where all Old World populations are interconnected by gene flow, but where populations at the peripheries (furthest away from Africa) maintained a unique set of morphological traits via a Center-and-Edge effect.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> As evidence against <a href="/wiki/Recent_African_Origin_hypothesis" title="Recent African Origin hypothesis">Recent African Origin</a> (RAO), Multiregionalists argue these trait complexes (called <i>morphological clades</i>) persisted in their regions and were never totally replaced by African migrants at anytime spanning Late Pleistocene 'out of Africa' exit dispersals. </p><p>It has been observed that by the "late 1990s most paleoanthropologists were interpreting the fossil and genetic evidence as incompatible with a 'strong' version of the multiregional hypothesis"<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> subsequently Multiregionalists revised their model to allow for a dominant role for Africa during Pleistocene human evolution (Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 2000). </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Origin_of_modern_humans"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Origin of modern humans</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Center-and-Edge"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Center-and-Edge</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Morphological_clades"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Morphological clades</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Current_consensus"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Current consensus</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Races"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Races</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Sources"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Origin_of_modern_humans">Origin of modern humans</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin of modern humans">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Multiregionalists such as Milford H. Wolpoff liken the evolution of human modernity to throwing pebbles into a pond: </p> <div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/4/41/MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png/250px-MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="256" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/41/MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png/375px-MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png 1.5x, /w/images/4/41/MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="458" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:MilfordWolpoffPuddle.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>M. H. Wolpoff explaining his idea anatomically modern traits appeared at different times in different places across the Old World (as pebbles thrown into a pond) but spreading to all breeding populations via gene flow (as water ripples).</div></div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Each pebble is an advantageous feature, appearing at different times and places. Ripples from the pebbles can spread across the entire pond surface; the interconnections of the populations provide the pathways for the traits to spread.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>In other words, Multiregionalists do not think modern humans evolved in one region or anatomical modernity evolved as a single "bio-package", but that modern traits (as a process) appeared individually in separate populations at different times, not limited to Africa, and spread through <a href="/wiki/Gene_flow" title="Gene flow">gene flow</a>. </p><p>By 2000-2001, Wolpoff and his colleagues modified MRE from what has been described as MRE 1<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> (classic or strong Multiregionalism) to MRE 2<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> (weak Multiregionalism). The revised model now recognizes the vast majority (but not all) of anatomical traits<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> associated with modernity evolved in Africa, which had the largest population size throughout the Pleistocene: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>... continuing debate on the nature of modern human origins, with advocates of the Multiregional Evolution (MRE) model arguing against a strictly 'out of Africa' origin for modern humans. However, supporters of the MRE model have more recently accepted the possibility that the majority of the modern human gene pool could have an African origin (Wolpoff <i>et al</i>., 2000, 2001, 2004), and primarily on the argument by Relethford (1999) that until recently more people live in Africa than elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Although MRE has always maintained more gene flow came from Africa given its larger population size<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> MRE 1 did not credit Africa as having a dominant role in human evolution and anatomical modernity.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> Caspari and Wolpoff (2013) for example now write (consistent with MRE 2) Africa was where most adaptive mutations spread from: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The dominance of African population size for most of the Pleistocene has widely discussed consequences (Eller <i>et al</i>., 2004; Relethford, 2003; Hawks and Wolpoff, 2003). One of these is that with a significant proportion of the world’s population for most of the Pleistocene, Africa must also have been a significant source of adaptive mutations.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Wolpoff cautions in his view "this does not mean that modernity dispersed with Africans". Chris Stringer, regards this dispute to be almost meaningless, i.e. there is little (and insignificant) difference between anatomically modern humans having evolved exclusively in Africa, versus <i>almost</i> entirely in Africa,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> but Wolpoff & Lee (2012) discuss since there was gene flow connecting modern humans in Africa and Neanderthals in Europe, the evolutionary process of anatomical modernization in Africa had a minor Neanderthal genetic component, meaning "modern human origins are multiregional". </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Center-and-Edge">Center-and-Edge</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Center-and-Edge">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Multiregionalism proposes there was a distinct pattern of morphological continuity in the furthest regions from Africa (the "edges") for over 1 million years, when these areas were settled by <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_erectus" title="Homo erectus">H. erectus</a></i>. To explain how these complexes of skeletal traits persisted for so long and unchanged in these Old World peripheral populations, Multiregionalists do not propose parallel evolution (i.e. no gene flow and separate evolutionary lineages). In 1981, Alan Thorne attempted to solve this paradox: "how did populations retain geographical distinctions and yet evolve together?"<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> without resorting to discredited <a href="/wiki/Racial_polyphyletism" title="Racial polyphyletism">racial polyphyletism</a>. Thorne realized that isolation is not necessary for long-term marked phenotypic differentiation if the peripheral populations (of a species range) are small. This is because <a href="/wiki/Genetic_drift" title="Genetic drift">genetic drift</a> will reduce variation (in large populations, drift has less effect), and selection will increase because the peripheries of a species range are least ecologically optimal and most harsh. Conversely, in optimal environments where a species originated (usually always at the center of a species geographical distribution) and has adapted the longest - selection is relaxed and more trait variants can flourish.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup> The speciation center also tends to maintain a large number of occupants (with the greatest polymorphism and heterogeneity), while populations at the peripheries, reflect small populations, with <a href="/wiki/Population_bottleneck" title="Population bottleneck">founder and peninsula (bottleneck) effects</a>. Reduced variation in peripheral populations can result in monomorphism, meaning intraregional homogeneity in phenotype, where virtually all individuals look very similar.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Thus, the 'centre and edge' hypothesis provides an explanation for how the contrasting pattern of central variability and peripheral intraregional homogeneity combined with interregional heterogeneity was initially established.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>According to Wolpoff and colleagues, regional continuity skeletal traits were maintainable at the peripheries <i>with</i> gene flow if there was a stable interaction between genetic drift, gene flow and selection. Strong gene flow through migration swamping would likely have erased most morphological evidence for regional continuity, but Multiregionalists point out that gene flow throughout the Pleistocene was reduced at the "edges" (unlike the center, where Africa received gene flow that was more multidirectional<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup>) to explain how <i>morphological clades</i> persisted at the peripheries of the Old World: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>...the levels of gene flow at the peripheries would be such as to allow both differentiation and stabilization of morphological patterns, and prevent speciation events.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>More recently, MRE 2 posits migration swamping occurred across the Old World throughout the Pleistocene because of the larger population in Africa: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Under a Primary African Origin, the gene flow out of Africa would affect all traits equally, and any biological distance measure that is an average of all available traits will show the closer relationship to earlier African[s]... Because of the random nature of genetic drift, <i>some</i> traits will retain regional continuity in the face of the overall impact of gene flow.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Note that whereas gene flow affects all traits equally, genetic drift has a different expectation for each trait. So a "Primary African Origin" model (MRE 2) still supports (limited) regional continuity. </p> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:402px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Multiregionaltrellis.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/7/7c/Multiregionaltrellis.png/400px-Multiregionaltrellis.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="407" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/7/7c/Multiregionaltrellis.png 1.5x" data-file-width="446" data-file-height="454" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Multiregionaltrellis.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Multiregional trellis<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup> showing Pleistocene regional continuity between fossils at the three Old World peripheries as "edges" and the center (Africa). Horizontal and diagonal lines represent gene flow and population movements.</div></div></div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Morphological_clades">Morphological clades</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Morphological clades">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The mark of ancient Java is on all of them.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Macintosh (1965)<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The mark of ancient Java is on none of them.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Westaway & Groves (2009)<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Multiregionalists argue that the human populations at the three "edges" of the Old World: Europe, North China and Java, Indonesia (from when <i>H. erectus</i> colonized these areas, to the late terminal Pleistocene) were fairly close to being monomorphic, and therefore had an ensemble of skeletal traits that uniquely characterized each geographic region which Thorne & Wolpoff (1981) coined a <i>morphological clade</i>. It is a key tenet of Multiregional evolution that in the fossil record at these geographical peripheries there should be evidence of skeletal continuity "spanning the period before and after the replacement time"<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup> (of the competing <a href="/wiki/Recent_African_Origin_hypothesis" title="Recent African Origin hypothesis">RAO hypothesis</a>). Each periphery is said to contain a distinguishing co-occurring set of morphological traits, "a consequence of the colonization events that limited peripheral variability, primarily because of drift and bottlenecking".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup> </p><p>Regional continuity is not the claim individual traits do not appear in other regions, only <i>combinations</i><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup> of features: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Compared to other contemporary populations, the Javan [Indonesian] people have a <i>distinctive combination</i> of cranial features. These include (1) thickened vault bones, (2) a long, flattened frontal squama whose anterior edge merges into (3) strong, continuous browridges forming an almost or straight bar of bone across the orbits, (4) a posterior position for the minimum frontal breadth, and (5) a prebregmatic eminence. Facial features can be generally described as involving (6) large projecting faces with (7) massive, rounded cheekbones, specially the males, facing in an anterolateral direction; (8) postcanine teeth are among the largest to be found anywhere that time, and while large postcanin teeth can befound in all Pleistocene populations, it is interesting that, holding sex constant, average postcanine tooth size does not change in this clade until the Holocene, making (9) <i>pattern of dental reduction</i> an additional regional feature. Details of the face include (10) a 'rolled edge' on the lower margin of the orbits,(11) a distinctive ridge on the cheek at the zygomaxillar suture, and (12) a nasal floor that flows out smoothly onto the face. In the case of this aspect of nasal floor anatomy, other later population such as some modern Africans also possess the feature. What makes it important here is the fact that it characterizes the Australasian peoples both in the past and today <i>in combination</i> with the other features we have found. The presence of this complex of features distinguishes the fossil Javans from groups in other areas. After all, the humans we have compared belong to the same species, and we can hardly expect that, within species, regional groups can be characterized by single unique features that do not appear elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> (emphasis in original) </p> </blockquote> <p>The regional continuity traits essential to MRE are not autapomorphic (unique derived traits via <a href="/wiki/Mutation" title="Mutation">mutation</a>, diagnostic for a reproductively isolated population); Wolpoff explains: "if single traits clearly reflected the evolutionary sequence in different regions, it would be a <i>disproof</i> of Multiregional evolution because it would suggest there was no network of genetic exchanges linking populations".<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup> Instead, <i>morphological clades</i> are said to represent a unique combination of skeletal traits established via <a href="/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Founder_effect" title="Population bottleneck">founder effect</a>, and maintained by genetic drift at the "edges" through small population-size.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup> </p><p>Heterogeneity at the species center (i.e. Africa) would mean such unique "edge" morphological combinations would not appear there given the extremely high variation and countless number of variant combinations of features, e.g. <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>d</i>, <i>f</i>, but not <i>a</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>f</i>, <i>j</i> etc. Although all the traits <i>a</i> - <i>z</i> individually would be present in African fossils, this point is often misunderstood or overlooked (see below). </p><p>There are individual traits that show a disparate frequency by region, i.e. while not exclusive, are found in only one peripheral fossil record at high-moderate frequency, very rarely in another: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The horizontal-oval mandibular foramen is virtually unique to European fossils. It is found in almost no other remains... the horizontal-oval foramen has a significant frequency in the subsequent post-Neandertal populations of Europe and only decreases to rarity in recent Europeans.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:250px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Neanderthalmandibular.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/f/fa/Neanderthalmandibular.png" decoding="async" width="248" height="438" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="438" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Neanderthalmandibular.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><b>Top image</b>: H-O mandibular foramen, also referred to as "lingual bridging" (Krapina Neanderthal mandible). <b>Bottom image</b>: Normal (V-shaped) mandibular foramen.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> "The opening where the mandibular nerve enters the interior aspect of the mandible is 'V-shaped', which is considered the normal condition. But in many European Neanderthal mandibles the uppermost part of this area is bridged, so that when viewed from top the opening takes on a horizontal-oval shape" (Frayer, 1997).</div></div></div> <p>These exceptional singular traits such as the H-O mandibular foramen in Europe (which appears in only a single Pleistocene fossil in Africa<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup>) Wolpoff maintains are strong evidence for regional continuity, but because they are such few in number, MRE literature focuses on combinations. The latter also rule out <a href="/wiki/Convergent_evolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Convergent evolution">homoplasies</a>: "the double evolution of a whole set of features is improbable to the extreme".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> For morphological combinations to demonstrate regional continuity, they must show strong <a href="/wiki/Heritability" title="Heritability">heritability</a> (rather than environmental plasticity), and each feature in the set must be independent (not interdependent) of one another.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> Traits intercorrelated by masticatory functional constraints, or manifestations of the same morphological variable give undue weight - this means regional continuity traits should co-occur with other traits by random chance, and not be mutually dependent.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup> </p><p>Groves (1989) tested 16 of Wolpoff's regional continuity traits for North China and 9 for Java, Indonesia. He found none to be exclusive to either these regions, with high overlap of frequency occurrence, concluding: "the Regional Continuity model [MRE] lacks much real substance". Lahr (1992, 1994) and Lieberman (1995) published similar findings. These studies have been criticized by Wolpoff (1996) who notes they only tested traits individually, not combinations (i.e. continuity is "marked by differing combinations of features, and not particularly by differences between their individual frequencies"<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup>). </p><p>In two studies by Habgood (1989, 1992) it was shown a limited number of traits <i>combined</i> might lend support to regional continuity: a unique set of 5 traits in North China associated with facial flatness (<b>1.</b> a non-depressed nasal root, <b>2.</b> nonprojecting, perpendicularly orientated nasal bones, <b>3.</b> inferior projection or orientation of the zygomatics, <b>4.</b> a horizontal course of the nasomaxillary and frontomaxillary sutures and <b>5.</b> an angular junction of the zygomatic bones and zygomatic process of the maxilla), and a unique set of 4 in Indonesia (<b>1.</b> a long and sagittally flat frontal bone with a posteriorly placed minimum frontal breadth, <b> 2.</b> marked facial prognathism, <b>3.</b> zygomaxillary tuberosity and <b>4.</b> eversion of the lower border of the zygomatic). Evidence for this small (yet consequential and not trivial) skeletal continuity better fits the <a href="/wiki/Assimilation_model" title="Assimilation model">Assimilation model</a> (AM) than MRE: "AM differs from MRE by positing that the archaic contribution to modern populations was always relatively small, and thus continuity would only be found in limited details of anatomy".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup> </p><p>More recent critics of regional continuity point out that the combinations of morphological traits thought to be unique (and circumscribed) to the 3 peripheries by Multiregionalists, are in fact common in the African fossil record, or occasionally in other regions, e.g. "every one of the regional features claimed to link the Ngandong [Java] and WLH 50 fossils can be found-in the Omo 2 calvaria from Ethiopia".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></sup> </p><p>Habgood (2003) still sees evidence for minor regional skeletal continuity, but proponents of the RAO hypothesis <a href="/wiki/Recent_African_Origin_hypothesis#Criticism_of_morphological_continuity" title="Recent African Origin hypothesis">continue to deny any morphological continuity</a> at the Old World peripheries between archaic humans and early moderns (before and after the replacement time by African migrants). </p><p>A 2013 re-analysis of regional continuity traits listed by MRE proponents for Indonesia (and the surrounding Australian region) found: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Based on this evidence, it would seem that the hypothesis of an Indonesian component to the ancestry of the first Australians cannot be supported. There are no specific regional characteristics that demonstrate an unequivocal link between the Sangiran or Ngandong fossils and early Australians.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Part of this dismissal of regional continuity was the result of a new reconstruction of the Sangiran 17 skull from Java, which removed the marked facial prognathism and zygomaxillary tuberosity of Wolpoff's reconstruction.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup> Claims of regional continuity in this region have been further criticized by Durband (2004, 2007, 2009). Research by Brown (1981) has highlighted the possibility the flat frontal bones in terminal Pleistocene Australian crania, are artificial deformations. This is problematic for Multiregionalists who cite a flat frontal bone as an indicator of morphological continuity from archaic Indonesians.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Current_consensus">Current consensus</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Current consensus">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Phenotype is an expression of genes, and so it has been calculated the sizable number of MRE continuity features in each periphery - yield estimates of archaic genetic admixture (such as <a href="/wiki/Neanderthal" class="mw-redirect" title="Neanderthal">Neanderthal</a>), ranging from 21.5% - 79.9%.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup> Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. (2004) for example argue a Neanderthal contribution to early modern Europeans could be up to 50%. These high percentages have not been met by ancient DNA studies of Upper Paleolithic skeletons, and so MRE 1 has been falsified.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a></sup> A weaker version of Multiregionalism (MRE 2), closer to the Assimilation model (AM) is still though a viable model.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Races">Races</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Races">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:NeanderthalHO.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/d/d5/NeanderthalHO.png/300px-NeanderthalHO.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="134" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/d/d5/NeanderthalHO.png 1.5x" data-file-width="307" data-file-height="137" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:NeanderthalHO.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The H-O mandibular foramen in Europe appears in the majority (53%) of Neanderthal mandibles, a moderate 18% of anatomically modern early Upper Paleolithic mandibles (as evidence for regional continuity), but decreases to 7% by the late Upper Paleolithic, 2% by Mesolithic and 1% in recent/living populations.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a></sup></div></div></div> <p>The three <i>morphological clades</i> of the Pleistocene have been called <a href="/wiki/Race" title="Race">races</a> or allotaxa by Wolpoff, defined as "morphologically diagnosable yet not reproductively isolated populations".<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a></sup> According to Wolpoff these races did not continue into the Holocene because the unique morphological combinations at the "edges" disappeared or were sizably reduced in frequency (erasing the Center-and-Edge effect). This is said to have occurred through population size changes at the peripheries (populations were no longer small), increased gene flow, and Neolithic demic-replacements: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>...as the signiﬁcant population expansions and movements of the late Pleistocene and more recent times began (Hawks <i>et al</i>. 2007), the ancient pattern of distinct regional differences (subspecies) was obscured. One consequence is that today variation within populations is greater than variation between populations, and subspecies (biological races) do not exist [...] Human geographic variation obviously exists, but it is not racial. Modern paleoanthropology and genetics are among the disciplines that have shown that there is no taxonomy in the human species below the species level. They also show that the present poorly reflects the past. Neandertal morphology and genetics, and genetic evidence of other distinct groups, suggest far more population structure in the past. It is likely that for much of the Pleistocene the human species had races. But, whether or not races appeared in the past, they did not persist. With only some exceptions, much of the Pleistocene human variation did not survive the enormous population expansions and replacements of the latest Pleistocene and Holocene.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Wu (2005) also informs the: "Holocene should have rendered a lot of morphological changes in human skulls and made some of the common features which have existed in Pleistocene China, that no longer exist in recent Chinese populations". </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phylogenetics" title="Phylogenetics">Phylogenetics</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thorne & Wolpoff, 2003.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Klein (1989) and Lewin (1991) persist in illustrating multiregional evolution as main vertical lines of descent without any linkages through genic exchanges. In reporting that the model (as he misconstrues it) could not work, Lewin (1991) cites the geneticist Rouhani (1989), who asserts that the model could not work, and we concur with this assessment because Rouhani has also addressed Coon's model of parallel, independent evolution of human races and <i>not</i> multiregional evolution." (Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Such misrepresentations, including the pictorial and textual dismissals of the importance of gene flow in the multiregional model, are found not only in books geared for a lay audience, but in scientific books as well." (Templeton, 2007)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hawks & Wolpoff, 2003.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 2000.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 1994a.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"In the first full formulation of Multiregional Evolution (Wolpoff et al., 1984) a “center and edge” effect (described by Thorne, 1981) was indicated, in which most gene flow went from the African center with its large population to the more sparsely occupied peripheries. Wolpoff and colleagues considered this a persistent pattern throughout the Pleistocene; the continued movement of genes from the center brought new adaptive genes to the peripheries, where regionally predominant features were also maintained, and at no time did African features fully replace the regionally predominant ones." (Caspari & Wolpoff, 2013)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wood, 2015: 285.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff & Caspari, 1997a.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Aspects of the original Multiregional Model can be found in Thorne & Wolpoff (1992), where it is summarized as follows: 'Human evolution happened everywhere because every area was always part of the whole'. It was argued that each inhabited area showed a continuous anatomic sequence leading to modern humans, <i>and those outside Africa showed no special African influence</i>." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academia.edu/4994534/Modern_human_origins_progress_and_prospects">Stringer, 2002</a> emphasis added)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Multiregional 2 argues that an African influence predominated throughout Pleistocene human evolution because of larger population size, while populations outside Africa were more vulnerable to bottlenecking and extinctions. Thus, modern populations would mainly have African-derived genes and African-derived morphological characters, although these were predominantly acquired through gene flow, rather than rapid replacement." (Stringer, 2002)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Many 'modern' traits (such as high, rounded skulls; small brow ridges; a vertical forehead; and a noticeable chin) first appear in Africa about 130,000 years ago, followed by an expansion out-of-Africa more than 90,000 years ago." (Templeton, 2002)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith <i>et al</i>. 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 1984.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thorne <i>et al</i>. 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"As we see it, the relevant conditions are set by the probability that the human species was quite small for most of the Pleistocene, totaling as little as one million or less (Eller <i>et al</i>., 2004). Multiregional Evolution explains Pleistocene variation as a consequence of population structure in this small, widespread species, whose populations were intermittently connected in a network of gene flow and population movements. Eller and colleagues suggest it is likely that half or more of the human species lived in Africa, and some estimate the African percentage was even higher (Mele <i>et al</i>., 2011), until the population expansions at the end of the Pleistocene created extensive population growth in other parts of the world. This superimposes the multiregional pattern throughout the human range, with the direction of gene flow across this interconnected network most often from the center of the human range, where there were more people, to the various edges (Wolpoff, 1989)." (Caspari & Wolpoff, 2013)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"At this point, it is worth reminding ourselves what classic multiregionalism [MRE 1] actually proposed. Here is a quotation from a paper written in 1994 by Milford Wolpoff and four other prominent advocates of the model at that time: 'The evolutionary patterns of three different regions show that the earliest ‘modern’ humans are not Africans and do not have the complex of features that characterize the Africans of that time or any other. There is no evidence of specific admixture with Africans at any time, let alone replacement by them'... Multiregionalism gave Africa no special place in our evolution." (Stringer, 2014)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"The nature of the debate has changed greatly recently with a general acceptance even by committed multiregionalists that Africa has played the dominant role in modern human origins, and discussion now centres on whether that origin was entirely African or only mostly so." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academia.edu/4863001/The_origins_of_modern_humans_1984-2004">Stringer, 2006</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"How did populations retain geographic distinctions and yet evolve together? This is the apparent paradox that Multiregional evolution addresses." (Wolpoff & Caspari, 1997b: 288)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Populations in the center should be heterogeneous because selection weeding out variations should be less intense where humans are best adapted." (Wolpoff & Caspari, 1997b: 264)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"It has been pointed out that the morphological characteristics of polymorphic species 'reveals almost invariably that the degree of polymorphism decreases toward the border of the species, and that the peripheral populations are not infrequently monomorphic' (Mayr, 1963)." (Thorne, 1981)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 1984.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Gene flow through populations will tend to be greatest at a species' geographic center, because gene flow through central populations is multidirectional." (Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 1984)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"[T]he periphery (or in ecologically marginal areas) there will be reduced gene flow and thus a reduced number of new genotypes through time." (Thorne, 1981)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lahr, 1996: 14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Relethford, J. (2007). "Population Genetics and Paleoanthropology". In: Henke, W., Tattersall, I. (eds.). <i>Handbook of Paleoanthropology</i> (vol. 1). New York: Springer. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Macintosh was one of the first anthropologists to assert terminal Pleistocene crania from Australia show signs of morphological continuity with the archaic Javan Ngandong skulls.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Westaway & Groves deny any morphological continuity between the Ngandong skulls from Indonesia (Java) and terminal Pleistocene Australian crania.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 1994b.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-32">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Regional continuity refers to the observation that very common features persist in different regions for long periods of time. It is not the claim that such features do not appear elsewhere; the genetic structure of the human species makes such a possibility unlikely to the extreme. There may be uniqueness in <i>combinations</i> of traits, but no single trait is likely to have been unique in a particular part of the world although it might appear to be so because of the incomplete sampling provided by the spotty human fossil record." (Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 2000)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff & Caspari, 1997b: 298.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-35">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff & Caspari, 1997b: 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, 1978.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Except for an archaic <i>Homo</i> mandible (OH-22), it is totally absent in all known Pleistocene mandibles from Africa." (Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-39">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff <i>et al</i>. 1994b.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lahr, 1996: 157.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"<i>Combinations, not individual features</i>. Why do clusters of features occur in combination? There are several possible reasons: (a) they are consequences of a single pleiotropic gene, or tightly linked genetically, (b) they form part of a developmental complex, (c) they form part of functional complex, (d) they are selected for by common environmental factors, and (e) they occur together by chance... if they co-occur by chance there is much more likely to be some special significance (in terms of regional continuity) to the combination." (Groves, 1997)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-42">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff, 1996: 785.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-43">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-44">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Brauer & Stringer, 1997.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-45">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Durband & Westaway, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-46">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Baba <i>et al</i>. 2000.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-47">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thorne & Wolpoff, 1981.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-48">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Frayer <i>et al</i>. 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-49">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thorne & Wolpoff, 2003.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-50">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Pearson, 2004.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-51">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Stringer, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-52">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Supporters of this more extreme form of multiregionalism claim that modern human populations in Asia and Europe evolved <i>mostly</i> from local premodern ancestors—with only minor influence coming from African population expansion. But with the breadth and consistency of the latest research, this strong version of multiregionalism is falsified." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://anthropology.msu.edu/iss220-fs12/files/2012/08/understanding_humans_ch12.pdf">[1]</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-53">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"However, there is little evidence that would allow one to falsify the weak forms of... the multiregional hypothesis." (Wood, 2015: 317)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-54">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Although the mtDNA and Y chromosome data have essentially rejected strong multiregional positions, these results may not be incompatible with weaker versions of the multiregional hypothesis." (Johnson, 2007: 101)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-55">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff & Caspari, 1997b: 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-56">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolpoff & Caspari, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-57">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academia.edu/3762914/Wolpoff_2013_MRE">Wolpoff, 2013</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sources">Sources</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_hypothesis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sources">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>Ahern, J. C. M. (2006). 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