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{{Short description|Human evolution hypothesis}} | |||
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The '''multiregional hypothesis''', '''multiregional evolution''' ('''MRE'''), or '''polycentric hypothesis''', is a ] that provides an alternative explanation to the more widely accepted ] of ] for the pattern of ]. | |||
]. The horizontal lines represent 'multiregional evolution' gene flow between regional lineages.]] | |||
Multiregional evolution holds that the ] species first arose around two million years ] and subsequent human evolution has been within a single, continuous human species. This species encompasses all ] forms such as '']'', ], and ]s as well as modern forms, and evolved worldwide to the diverse populations of ] ('']''). | |||
The '''multiregional hypothesis''' or orginally '''multiregional evolution''' is a ''model to account for the pattern of human evolution'', proposed by ]<ref name=multiregional>{{cite journal | |||
|last=Wolpoff | |||
|first=MH | |||
|coauthors=Hawks J, Caspari R | |||
|date=2000 | |||
|title=Multiregional, not multiple origins | |||
|journal=Am J Phys Anthropol | |||
|volume=112 | |||
|issue=1 | |||
|pages=129-36 | |||
|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/71008905/abstract | |||
|pdf=http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-personal.umich.edu%2F~wolpoff%2FPapers%2FMultiregional.PDF&ei=9HJ6SqPlBY-SNtWt5N0C&rct=j&q=%22Multiregional%2C+not+multiple+origins%22&usg=AFQjCNEhNgp4h_-LOZPqNuRV9_NbAB6zFg&sig2=dgiXnJ-cBkt42zlDb7hpdg}}</ref> in 1988<ref name=Wolpoff1988>{{cite journal | |||
| doi=10.1126/science.3136545 | |||
| title=Modern human origins | |||
| last=Wolpoff | |||
| first=MH | |||
| coauthors=JN Spuhler, FH Smith, J Radovcic, G Pope, DW Frayer, R Eckhardt, and G Clark | |||
| date=1988|title=Modern Human Origins | |||
| journal=Science | |||
| volume=241 | |||
| issue=4867 | |||
| pages=772-4 | |||
| url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/pdf_extract/241/4867/772 | |||
}}</ref>. The multiregional evolution holds that the ] from the beginning of the ] 2.5 million years ] to the present day has been within a single, continuous ], evolving worldwide to modern ''Homo sapiens''. | |||
The hypothesis contends that the mechanism of ] through a model of "centre and edge" allowed for the necessary balance between ], ], and ] throughout the ], as well as overall evolution as a global species, but while retaining regional differences in certain morphological features.<ref name=WolpoffMHO/> Proponents of multiregionalism point to ] and ] data and continuity of ]s as support for their hypothesis. | |||
Proponents of the multiregional evolution point to ] and ] data<ref name=Cox2008>{{Cite journal | |||
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| author = Cox, Mp; Mendez, Fl; Karafet, Tm; Pilkington, Mm; Kingan, Sb; Destro-Bisol, G; Strassmann, Bi; Hammer, Mf | |||
| title = Testing for archaic hominin admixture on the X chromosome: model likelihoods for the modern human RRM2P4 region from summaries of genealogical topology under the structured coalescent | |||
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| journal = Genetics | |||
| url = http://www.genetics.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=18202385 | |||
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}}</ref> as support for their hypothesis. The ] and ] between modern and ancestral human population has not been ruled out,<ref name=heredity>{{cite journal | |||
| doi=10.1038/hdy.2008.14 | |||
| last=Relethford | |||
| first=JH | |||
| date=2008 | |||
| title=Genetic evidence and the modern human origins debate | |||
| journal=Heredity | |||
| publisher=Macmillan | |||
| volume=100 | |||
| issue=6 | |||
| pages=555-63 | |||
}}</ref><ref name="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VS0-4M21SWT-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=43bc2fdddd454c715ebfe27b4ad6a48a">{{cite journal | |||
| doi=10.1016/j.gde.2006.09.006 | |||
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| title=Archaic admixture in the human genome | |||
| journal=Curr Opin Genet Dev | |||
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}}</ref> although there is not yet evidence for any extant 37,000 year or older mitohondrial ] still surviving up until today.<ref name=Hodgson>{{cite journal | |||
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| last=Hodgson | |||
| first=JA | |||
| coauthors=Disotell TR | |||
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| title=No evidence of a Neanderthal contribution to modern human diversity. | |||
| journal=Genome Biology | |||
| publisher=BioMed Central | |||
| volume=9 | |||
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| pages=206 | |||
| url=http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/2/206 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
The multiregional hypothesis was first proposed in 1984, and then revised in 2003. In its revised form, it is similar to the assimilation model, which holds that modern humans originated in Africa and today share a predominant recent African origin, but have also absorbed small, geographically variable, degrees of admixture from other regional (]) hominin species.<ref name="CShuman"/> | |||
2009 statistical analysis over available ] data find evidence for ancient admixture, suggesting this may be a general feature of recent human evolution.<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1093/molbev/msp096 | |||
| title = Detecting Ancient Admixture and Estimating Demographic Parameters in Multiple Human Populations | |||
| year = 2009 | |||
| author = Wall, J. D. | |||
| journal = Molecular Biology and Evolution | |||
| volume = 26 | |||
| pages = 1823 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
The multiregional hypothesis is not currently the most accepted theory of modern human origin among scientists. "The African replacement model has gained the widest acceptance owing mainly to genetic data (particularly mitochondrial DNA) from existing populations. This model is consistent with the realization that modern humans cannot be classified into subspecies or races, and it recognizes that all populations of present-day humans share the same potential."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Human evolution - Emergence, ''Homo sapiens'', Bipedalism |encyclopedia=] |date=8 June 2024 |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution/The-emergence-of-Homo-sapiens}}</ref> The African replacement model is also known as the "out of Africa" theory, which is currently the most widely accepted model. It proposes that ''Homo sapiens'' evolved in Africa before migrating across the world."<ref>{{cite web |title=Evolution of modern humans |url=https://www.yourgenome.org/theme/evolution-of-modern-humans/}}</ref> And: "The primary competing scientific hypothesis is currently recent African origin of modern humans, which proposes that modern humans arose as a new species in Africa around 100-200,000 years ago, moving out of Africa around 50-60,000 years ago to replace existing human species such as ''Homo erectus'' and the Neanderthals without interbreeding.<ref>Liu, Hua; et al. (2006). "A Geographically Explicit Genetic Model of Worldwide Human-settlement History". '']'' 79 (2): 230–237. doi:10.1086/505436. PMID 16826514. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1559480</ref><ref>Weaver, Timothy D.; Roseman, Charles C. (2008). "New developments in the genetic evidence for modern human origins". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews (Wiley-Liss) 17 (1): 69–80. doi:10.1002/evan.20161. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117921411/abstract{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}.</ref><ref>Fagundes, N. J.; Ray, N.; Beaumont M.; Neuenschwander, S. Salzano, F. M.; Bonatto, S. L.; Excoffier, L. (2007). "Statistical evaluation of alternative models of human evolution". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104 (45): 17614–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0708280104. PMID 17978179. PMC 2077041. Bibcode: 2007PNAS..10417614F. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0708280104</ref><ref name="Wolpoff, Milford 1997 p. 42">Wolpoff, Milford, and Caspari, Rachel (1997). Race and Human Evolution. Simon & Schuster. p. 42.</ref> This differs from the multiregional hypothesis in that the multiregional model predicts interbreeding with preexisting local human populations in any such migration."<ref name="Wolpoff, Milford 1997 p. 42"/><ref>Scholarly Community Encyclopeda.</ref> | |||
A competing theory, the ] (also known as "Out of Africa"), has emerged as the near consensus view since the 1990s,<ref name="dx.doi.org">Hua Liu, et al. . ''American Journal of Human Genetics'', volume 79 (2006), pages 230–237, quote: ''Currently available genetic and archaeological evidence is generally interpreted as supportive of a recent single origin of modern humans in East Africa. However, this is where '''the near consensus''' on human settlement history ends, and considerable uncertainty clouds any more detailed aspect of human colonization history.''</ref><ref>{{cite journal | |||
|doi=10.1002/evan.20161 | |||
|last=Weaver | |||
|first=Timothy D | |||
|coauthors=Charles C. Roseman | |||
|date=2008 | |||
|title=New developments in the genetic evidence for modern human origins | |||
|journal=Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews | |||
|publisher=Wiley-Liss | |||
|volume=17 | |||
|issue=1 | |||
|pages=69-80 | |||
|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117921411/abstract}}</ref> proposing that modern humans arose in Africa around 100-200,000 years ago, moving out of Africa around 50-60,000 years ago to replace existing human species such as ''Homo erectus'' and the ].<ref name=statistical>{{cite journal | |||
|last=Fagundes | |||
|first=NJ | |||
|coauthors=Ray N, Beaumont M, Neuenschwander S, Salzano FM, Bonatto SL, Excoffier L. | |||
|date=2007 | |||
|title=Statistical evaluation of alternative models of human evolution | |||
|journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | |||
|volume=104 | |||
|issue=45 | |||
|pages=17614-9 | |||
|url=http://www.pnas.org/content/104/45/17614.long}}</ref> | |||
==History== | |||
==Regional continuity== | |||
{{Human timeline}}{{Life timeline}} | |||
The term "multiregional hypothesis" was first coined in the early 1980s by ] and colleagues as an explanation for the apparent similarities seen in '']'' and '']'' fossils from the same region, what they called ''regional continuity''.<ref name=Wolpoff1988/> | |||
===Overview=== | |||
The Multiregional hypothesis was proposed in 1984 by ], ] and ].<ref>Wolpoff, M. H.; Wu, X. Z.; Alan, G.; G. Thorne (1984). "Modern ''Homo sapiens'' Origins: A General Theory of Hominid Evolution Involving the Fossil Evidence from east Asia". ''The Origins of Modern Humans'', New York: Liss, 411–83.</ref><ref name="multiregional">{{cite journal |last1=Wolpoff |first1=M. H. |last2=Hawks |first2=J. D. |author2-link=John D. Hawks |last3=Caspari |first3=R. |date=2000 |title=Multiregional, not multiple origins |journal=] |volume=112 |issue=1 |pages=129–36 |pmid=10766948 |doi=10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(200005)112:1<129::AID-AJPA11>3.0.CO;2-K |hdl=2027.42/34270 |hdl-access=free |url=https://public.websites.umich.edu/~wolpoff/Papers/Multiregional.PDF}}</ref><ref name=WolpoffMHO>{{cite journal |last1=Wolpoff |first1=M. H. |last2=Spuhler |first2=J. N. |last3=Smith |first3=F. H. |last4=Radovcic |first4=J. |last5=Pope |first5=G. |last6=Frayer |first6=D. W. |last7=Eckhardt |first7=R. |last8=Clark |first8=G. |date=1988 |title=Modern Human Origins |journal=Science |volume=241 |issue=4867 |pages=772–74 |bibcode=1988Sci...241..772W |pmid=3136545 |doi=10.1126/science.3136545 |s2cid=5223638}}</ref> Wolpoff credits ]'s "Polycentric" hypothesis of human origins as a major influence, but cautions that this should not be confused with ], or ]'s model that minimized gene flow.<ref name="multiregional"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hawks |first1=J. |author1-link=John D. Hawks |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |date=2003 |title=Sixty years of modern human origins in the American Anthropological Association |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=105 |issue=1 |pages=89–100 |doi=10.1525/aa.2003.105.1.89 |hdl=2027.42/65197 |hdl-access=free |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/65197/aa.2003.105.1.89.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eckhardt |first1=R. B. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |last3=Thorne |first3=A. G. |date=1993 |title=Multiregional Evolution |journal=Science |volume=262 |issue=5136 |page=974 |pmid=8235634 |doi=10.1126/science.262.5136.973-b}}</ref> According to Wolpoff, multiregionalism was misinterpreted by ], who confused Weidenreich's hypothesis with a polygenic "candelabra model" in his publications spanning five decades: | |||
{{Blockquote|How did Multiregional evolution get stigmatized as polygeny? We believe it comes from the confusion of Weidenreich's ideas, and ultimately of our own, with Coon's. The historic reason for linking Coon's and Weidenreich's ideas came from the mischaracterizations of Weidenreich's Polycentric model as a candelabra (Howells, 1942, 1944, 1959, 1993), that made his Polycentric model appear much more similar to Coon's than it actually was.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Caspari |first1=R. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |date=1996 |title=Weidenreich, Coon, and multiregional evolution |journal=Human Evolution |volume=11 |issue=3–4 |pages=261–68 |doi=10.1007/bf02436629 |s2cid=84805412}}</ref>}} | |||
] rejected the earlier proposal by ] of parallel evolution,<ref name=Wolpoff1988/> and proposed a theory based on ] that would allow for the necessary balance between local selection and a global species. He proposed that ''Homo erectus'', Neanderthals, ''Homo sapiens'' and other humans were a single species. This species arose in Africa two million years ago as ''H. erectus'' and then spread out over the world, developing adaptations to regional conditions. It was proposed that for periods of time some populations became isolated, developing in a different direction, but through continuous interbreeding, replacement, ] and selection, adaptations that were an advantage anywhere on earth would spread, keeping the development of the species in the same overall direction, while maintaining adaptations to regional factors. Eventually, the more unusual local varieties of the species would have disappeared in favor of modern humans, retaining some regional adaptations, but with many common features.<ref name=Wolpoff1988/> | |||
Through the influence of Howells, many other anthropologists and biologists have confused multiregionalism with polygenism i.e. separate or multiple origins for different populations. ] for example notes that this confusion has led to the error that gene flow between different populations was added to the Multiregional hypothesis as a "special pleading in response to recent difficulties", despite the fact: "parallel evolution was ''never'' part of the multiregional model, much less its core, whereas gene flow was ''not a recent addition'', but rather was present in the model from the very beginning"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Templeton |first1=A. R. |date=2007 |title=Genetics and recent human evolution |journal=Evolution |volume=61 |issue=7 |pages=1507–19 |pmid=17598736 |doi=10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00164.x |doi-access=free}}</ref> (emphasis in original). Despite this, multiregionalism is still confused with polygenism, or Coon's model of racial origins, from which Wolpoff and his colleagues have distanced themselves.<ref>Wolpoff, M. H.; Caspari, R. 1997. ''Race and human evolution: A fatal attraction''. New York: Simon and Schuster.</ref><ref>Wolpoff, M. H.; Caspari, R. (2000). "". ''Przegląd Antropologiczny'' 63(1): 3–17.</ref> Wolpoff has also defended Wiedenreich's Polycentric hypothesis from being labeled polyphyletic. Weidenreich himself in 1949 wrote: "I may run the risk of being misunderstood, namely that I believe in polyphyletic evolution of man".<ref>Weidenreich, F. (1949). "Interpretations of the fossil material". In: ''Early Man in the Far East: Studies in Physical Anthropology''. Howells, W. W. (ed). "Studies in Physical Anthropology" series, Vol. 1. Detroit: American Association of Physical Anthropologists. pp. 149–57.</ref> | |||
In 1998, ] founded a China-specific Multiregional model called "Continuity with Hybridization".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=X. |date=1998 |title=Origin of modern humans of China viewed from cranio-dental characteristics of late ''Homo sapiens'' |journal=Acta Anthropologica Sinica |volume=17 |pages=276–82}}</ref><ref>Rosenberg, K. R.; Wu, X. (2013). "A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia". In: ''The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered''. Smith, F. H (ed). Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 89–122.</ref> Wu's variant only applies the Multiregional hypothesis to the East Asian fossil record, and is popular among Chinese scientists.<ref>Liu, L.; Chen, X. (2012). ''The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age''. ]. p. 14: "the majority of Chinese archaeologists and palaeontologists support the multiregional development model, proposing a hypothesis of regional continuity with hybridization between immigrants and indigenous populations in the evolution from ''H. erectus'' to ''H. sapiens'' in East Asia."</ref> However, James Leibold, a political historian of modern China, has argued the support for Wu's model is largely rooted in ].<ref>Leibold, J. (2012). "Filling in the Nation: The Spatial Trajectory of Prehistoric Archaeology in Twentieth-century China", in ''Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth Century China'', eds. Brian Moloughney and Peter Zarrow, pp. 333–71 (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press).</ref> Outside of China, the Multiregional hypothesis has limited support, held only by a small number of paleoanthropologists.<ref>Begun, D. R. (2013). "The Past, Present and Future of Palaeoanthropology". In: ''A Companion to Paleoanthropology''. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 8: "It needs to be noted, however, that this is a minority view among paleoanthropologists, most of whom support the African replacement model."</ref> | |||
==="Classic" vs "weak" multiregionalism=== | |||
], a leading proponent of the more mainstream ], debated Multiregionalists such as Wolpoff and Thorne in a series of publications throughout the late 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stringer |first1=C. B. |last2=Andrews |first2=P. |date=1988 |title=Genetic and fossil evidence for the origin of modern humans |journal=] |volume=239 |issue=4845 |pages=1263–68 |bibcode=1988Sci...239.1263S |pmid=3125610 |doi=10.1126/science.3125610}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stringer |first1=C. |last2=Bräuer |first2=G. |date=1994 |title=Methods, misreading, and bias |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=96 |issue=2 |pages=416–24 |doi=10.1525/aa.1994.96.2.02a00080}}</ref><ref>Stringer, C. B. (1992). "Replacement, continuity and the origin of ''Homo sapiens''". In: ''Continuity or Replacement? Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution''. F. H. Smith (ed). Rotterdam: Balkema. pp. 9–24.</ref><ref name="Bräuer, G. 1997 pp. 191-201">Bräuer, G.; Stringer, C. (1997). "Models, polarization, and perspectives on modern human origins". In: ''Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research''. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. pp. 191–201.</ref> Stringer describes how he considers the original Multiregional hypothesis to have been modified over time into a weaker variant that now allows a much greater role for Africa in human evolution, including ] (and subsequently less regional continuity than was first proposed).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stringer |first1=C. |date=2001 |title=Modern human origins: Distinguishing the models |journal=] |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=67–75 |doi=10.1023/A:1011079908461 |s2cid=161991922}}</ref> | |||
Stringer distinguishes the original or "classic" Multiregional model as having existed from 1984 (its formulation) until 2003, to a "weak" post-2003 variant that has "shifted close to that of the Assimilation Model".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stringer |first1=C. |date=2002 |title=Modern human origins: progress and prospects |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |volume=357 |issue=1420 |pages=563–79 |pmid=12028792 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2001.1057 |pmc=1692961}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stringer |first1=C. |date=2014 |title=Why we are not all multiregionalists now |journal=Trends in Ecology & Evolution |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=248–51 |bibcode=2014TEcoE..29..248S |pmid=24702983 |doi=10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.001 |doi-access=free}}</ref> | |||
===Genetic studies=== | |||
The finding that "]" was relatively recent and African seemed to give the upper hand to the proponents of the Out of Africa hypothesis. But in 2002, ] published a genetic analysis involving other loci in the genome as well, and this showed that some variants that are present in modern populations existed already in Asia hundreds of thousands of years ago.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Templeton |first=A. R. |date=2002 |title=Out of Africa again and again |journal=] |volume=416 |pages=45–51 |issue=6876 |bibcode=2002Natur.416...45T |pmid=11882887 |doi=10.1038/416045a |s2cid=4397398 |url=http://www.bioguider.com/ebook/biology/pdf/Templeton_n2002.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112033922/http://www.bioguider.com/ebook/biology/pdf/Templeton_n2002.pdf |archive-date=12 November 2020}}</ref> This meant that even if our male line (]) and our female line (]) came out of Africa in the last 100,000 years or so, we have inherited other genes from populations that were already outside of Africa. Since this study other studies have been done using much more data (see ]). | |||
==Fossil evidence== | ==Fossil evidence== | ||
===Morphological clades=== | |||
Some proponents of the multiregional hypothesis, including Wolpoff, argue that fossil evidence is more reliable than estimates based on genetic evidence and molecular clocks, which they contend are subject to genetic drift, bottlenecks and other complicating factors. | |||
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Proponents of the multiregional hypothesis see regional continuity of certain morphological traits spanning the ] in different regions across the globe as evidence against a ] from Africa. In general, three major regions are recognized: ], ], and ] (often including ]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolpoff |first=M. H. |date=1985 |chapter=Human evolution at the peripheries: The pattern at the eastern edge |title=Hominid Evolution: Past, Present and Future |pages=355–365}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal |last1=Frayer |first1=D. W. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |last3=Thorne |first3=A. G. |last4=Smith |first4=F. H. |last5=Pope |first5=G. G. |date=1993 |title=Theories of modern human origins: The paleontological test |journal=] |volume=95 |issue=1 |pages=14–50 |doi=10.1525/aa.1993.95.1.02a00020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Wolpoff |first1=M. H. |last2=Thorne |first2=A. G. |last3=Smith |first3=F. H. |last4=Frayer |first4=D. W. |last5=Pope |first5=G. G. |contribution=Multiregional Evolution: A World-wide Source for Modern Human Populations |title=Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans |editor1-last=Nitecki |editor1-first=M. H. |editor2-last=Nitecki |editor2-first=D. V. |location=New York |publisher=] |pages=175–199}}</ref> Wolpoff cautions that the continuity in certain skeletal features in these regions should not be seen in a racial context, instead calling them ''morphological clades''; defined as sets of traits that "uniquely characterise a geographic region".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wolpoff |first=M. H. |date=1989 |title=Multiregional evolution: The fossil alternative to Eden |journal=The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans |volume=1 |pages=62–108}}</ref> According to Wolpoff and Thorne (1981): "We do not regard a morphological clade as a unique lineage, nor do we believe it necessary to imply a particular | |||
===Neanderthals=== | |||
taxonomic status for it".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thorne |first1=A. G. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |date=1981 |title=Regional continuity in Australasian Pleistocene hominid evolution |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=337–49 |pmid=6791505 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330550308}}</ref> Critics of multiregionalism have pointed out that no single human trait is unique to a geographical region (i.e. confined to one population and not found in any other) but Wolpoff et al. (2000) note that regional continuity only recognizes combinations of features, not traits if individually accessed, a point they elsewhere compare to the forensic identification of a human skeleton: | |||
Multiregionalists claimed that the discovery of a possible hybrid ''Homo sapiens X neanderthalensis'' fossil child at the ] rock-shelter site in Portugal in 1999 further supports the multiregional hypothesis, by reflecting the admixture of diverse human populations.<ref name=Duarte1999>''The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia'' ;Duarte C, 2. Maurício J, Pettitt P, Souto P, Trinkaus E, van der Plicht H, Zilhão J (1999) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96:7604–7609,</ref> Two other archaeologists dispute this: "the analysis by Duarte ''et al.'' of the Lagar Velho child's skeleton is a brave and imaginative interpretation, of which it is unlikely that a majority of paleoanthropologists will consider proven."<ref></ref> | |||
{{Blockquote|Regional continuity ... 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 ''combinations'' 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.}} | |||
In an article appearing in the ]<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| author=Trinkaus, E | |||
| title=European early modern humans and the fate of the Neandertals | |||
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}}</ref> in 2007, Erik Trinkaus has brought together the available data, which shows that early modern humans did exhibit evidence of Neanderthal traits, saying, "When you look at all of the well dated and diagnostic early modern European fossils, there is a persistent presence of anatomical features that were present among the Neandertals but absent from the earlier African modern humans...Early modern Europeans reflect both their predominant African early modern human ancestry and a substantial degree of admixture between those early modern humans and the indigenous Neandertals."<ref>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423185434.htm The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals</ref> | |||
Combinations of features are "unique" in the sense of being found in only one region, or more weakly limited to one region at high frequency (very rarely in another). Wolpoff stresses that regional continuity works in conjunction with genetic exchanges between populations. Long-term regional continuity in certain morphological traits is explained by ]'s "centre and edge"<ref>{{cite conference |last=Thorne |first=A. G. |date=1981 |title=The Centre and the Edge: The significance of Australian hominids to African palaeoanthropology |book-title=Proceedings of the 8th Pan-African Congress of Prehistory (Nairobi) |pages=180–181 |location=Nairobi |publisher=National Museums of Kenya}}</ref> population genetics model which resolves Weidenreich's paradox of "how did populations retain geographical distinctions and yet evolve together?". For example, in 2001 Wolpoff and colleagues published an analysis of character traits of the skulls of early modern human fossils in Australia and central Europe. They concluded that the diversity of these recent humans could not "result exclusively from a single late Pleistocene dispersal", and implied dual ancestry for each region, involving interbreeding with Africans.<ref name="Wolpoff 2001">{{cite journal |last1=Wolpoff |first1=Milford H. |last2=Hawks |first2=John D. |author2-link=John D. Hawks |last3=Frayer |first3=David W. |last4=Hunley |first4=Keith |date=2001 |title=Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory |journal=] |volume=291 |pages=293–97 |issue=5502 |bibcode=2001Sci...291..293W |pmid=11209077 |doi=10.1126/science.291.5502.293}}</ref> | |||
===Peking man=== | |||
Shang et al see continuity in skeletal remains of ].<ref>{{cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1073/pnas.0702169104 | |||
| title = An early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, Zhoukoudian, China | |||
| author = Shang et al. | volume = 104 | |||
| issue = 16 | |||
| pages = 6573 | |||
| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | |||
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===Early modern humans=== | |||
====Indonesia, Australia==== | |||
Wolpoff and colleagues published an analysis in 2001 of character traits of the skulls of early modern human fossils, which failed to reject a theory of dual ancestry from Javan ''Homo erectus'' for Australian early modern humans and Neanderthals for Central European modern humans, and which they said ruled out a replacement model.<ref name="Wolpoff 2001">{{cite journal | |||
] held that there was regional continuity in ] and ] for a morphological clade.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thorne |first1=A. G. |date=1984 |title=Australia's human origins – how many sources? |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=133–242 |pmid=6711682 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330630203}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Thorne |first1=A. G. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |date=1992 |title=The multiregional evolution of humans |magazine=] |volume=266 |issue=4 |pages=76–83 |bibcode=1992SciAm.266d..76T |pmid=1566033 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0492-76}}</ref> This sequence is said to consist of the earliest fossils from ], Java, that can be traced through ] and found in prehistoric and recent ]. In 1991, Andrew Kramer tested 17 proposed morphological clade features. He found that: "a plurality (eight) of the seventeen non-metric features link Sangiran to modern Australians" and that these "are suggestive of morphological continuity, which implies the presence of a genetic continuum in Australasia dating back at least one million years"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kramer |first1=A. |date=1991 |title=Modern human origins in Australasia: replacement or evolution? |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=455–73 |pmid=1776654 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330860403}}</ref> but ] has criticized Kramer's methodology, pointing out that the polarity of characters was not tested and that the study is actually inconclusive.<ref>{{cite book |last=Groves |first=C. P. |date=1997 |chapter=Thinking About Evolutionary Change: The Polarity of Our Ancestors |title=Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research |publisher=]}}</ref> Phillip Habgood discovered that the characters said to be unique to the ]n region by Thorne are ]: | |||
|last=Wolpoff | |||
|first=Milford H | |||
|coauthors=John Hawks, David W Frayer, Keith Hunley | |||
|date=2001 | |||
|title=Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory | |||
|journal=Science | |||
|publisher=AAAS | |||
|volume=291 | |||
|pages=293-297 | |||
|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/5502/293 | |||
}}</ref> A subsequent analysis comparing differences of Neanderthal skulls to those of modern humans using 3D morphometric techniques showed a large difference between the two populations, such that Harvatti & al concluded that "we interpret the evidence presented here as supporting the view that Neanderthals represent an extinct human species and therefore refute the regional continuity model for Europe."<ref>{{cite journal | |||
|last=Harvati | |||
|first=Katerina | |||
|coauthors=Stephen R Frost and Kieran P McNulty | |||
|date=2004 | |||
|title=Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences | |||
|journal=PNAS | |||
|volume=101 | |||
|issue=5 | |||
|pages=1147-1152 | |||
|url=http://www.pnas.org/content/101/5/1147.full | |||
}}</ref> It has been argued that these differences are consistent with an evolving lineage, as ancestors are never identical to their descendants.<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1080/0043824042000303700 | |||
| title = Why not the Neandertals? | |||
| year = 2004 | |||
| author = Wolpoff, Milford | |||
| coauthors = Bruce Mannheim, Alan Mann, John Hawks, Rachel Caspari, Karen R. Rosenberg, David W. Frayer, George W. Gill and Geoffrey Clark | |||
| journal = World Archaeology | |||
| volume = 36 | |||
| pages = 527 | |||
| url = http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wolpoff/Papers/Why%2520not%2520the%2520Neanderthals.pdf | |||
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{{Blockquote|...it is evident that all of the characters proposed... to be 'clade features' linking Indonesian ''Homo erectus'' material with Australian Aboriginal crania are retained primitive features present on ''Homo erectus'' and archaic ''Homo sapiens'' crania in general. Many are also commonly found on the crania and mandibles of anatomically-modern ''Homo sapiens'' from other geographical locations, being especially prevalent on the robust Mesolithic skeletal material from North Africa."<ref>{{cite book |last=Habgood |first=P. J. |date=1989 |contribution=The origin of anatomically modern humans in Australasia |editor1-last=Mellars |editor1-first=P. |editor2-last=Stringer |editor2-first=C. B. |title=The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives in the Origins of Modern Humans |pages=245–273}}</ref>}} | |||
New early modern human remains were unearthed in 2003 in ], ]. ] dated 42-39 ky ''Tianyuan 1'' ] is the oldest, directly dated EMH in eastern Eurasia. ''Tianyuan 1'' exhibits a series of typical modern, derived modern human features and few archaic ]s. Some late archaic human traits include a large ] length, anterior to posterior dental proportions and a broad and rounded distal phalangeal tuberosityhis. <ref>{{Cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1073/pnas.0702169104 | |||
| year = 2007 | |||
| month = Apr | |||
| author = Shang, H; Tong, H; Zhang, S; Chen, F; Trinkaus, E | |||
| title = An early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, Zhoukoudian, China | |||
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Yet, regardless of these criticisms Habgood (2003) allows for limited regional continuity in Indonesia and Australia, recognizing four plesiomorphic features which do not appear in such a unique combination on fossils in any other region: a sagittally flat frontal bone, with a posterior position of minimum frontal breadth, great facial prognathism, and zygomaxillary tuberosities.<ref>{{cite book |last=Habgood |first=P. J. |date=2003 |title=A Morphometric Investigation into the Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans |series=International Series |volume=1176 |location=Oxford |publisher=] / ]}}</ref> This combination, Habgood says, has a "certain Australianness about it". | |||
The oldest European EMH remains were discovered in 2002 in cave named ] near the ] in the ]. ''Oase 1'' ] revealed specific traits combining a variety of archaic ''Homo'' traits, derived early modern humans, and possibly Neanderthal features. Modern human attributes place it close to European early modern humans among ] samples. The fossil belongs to the few findings in Europe which could be directly dated and is considered the oldest known early modern human fossil from Europe. Two laboratories independently yielded microfiltrated collagen with <sup>14</sup>C averaging to 34,950 B.P.<ref name=Trinkhaus2>{{Cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1073/pnas.2035108100 | |||
Wolpoff, initially skeptical of Thorne's claims, became convinced when reconstructing the ] 17 ''Homo erectus'' skull from Indonesia, when he was surprised that the skull's face to vault angle matched that of the Australian modern human ] 1 skull in excessive prognathism. Durband (2007) in contrast states that "features cited as showing continuity between Sangiran 17 and the Kow Swamp sample disappeared in the new, more orthognathic reconstruction of that fossil that was recently completed".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Durband |first1=A. |date=2007 |title=The view from down under: a test of the multiregional hypothesis of modern human origins using the basicranial evidence from Australasia |journal=Collegium Antropologicum |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=651–59 |pmid=18041369}}</ref> Baba et al. who newly restored the face of Sangiran 17 concluded: "regional continuity in Australasia is far less evident than Thorne and Wolpoff argued".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baba |first1=H. |last2=Aziz |first2=F. |last3=Narasaki |first3=S. |date=2000 |title=Restoration of the face of Javanese ''Homo erectus'' Sangiran 17 and re-evaluation of regional continuity in Australasia |journal=Acta Anthropologica Sinica |volume=19 |pages=34–40}}</ref> | |||
| year = 2003 | |||
| month = Sep | |||
====China==== | |||
| author = Trinkaus, E; Moldovan, O; Milota, S; Bîlgăr, A; Sarcina, L; Athreya, S; Bailey, Se; Rodrigo, R; Mircea, G; Higham, T; Ramsey, Cb; Van, Der, Plicht, J | |||
] | |||
| title = An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania | |||
] has argued for a morphological clade in China spanning the Pleistocene, characterized by a combination of 10 features.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=X. |date=1990 |title=The evolution of humankind in China |journal=Acta Anthropologica Sinica |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=312–21}}</ref><ref>Wu, X.; Poirier, F. E. (1995).. ].</ref> The sequence is said to start with ] and ], traced to ], to ] specimens (e.g. Liujiang) and recent Chinese. Habgood in 1992 criticized Wu's list, pointing out that most of the 10 features in combination appear regularly on fossils outside China.<ref>Habgood, P. J. (1992). "The origin of anatomically modern humans in east Asia". In: G. Bräuer, and F. H. Smith (eds.) ''Continuity or Replacement: Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution''. pp. 273–288.</ref> He did though note that three combined: a non-depressed nasal root, non-projecting perpendicularly oriented nasal bones and facial flatness are unique to the Chinese region in the fossil record and may be evidence for limited regional continuity. However, according to ], Habgood's study suffered from not including enough fossil samples from North Africa, many of which exhibit the small combination he considered to be region-specific to China.<ref name="Bräuer, G. 1997 pp. 191-201"/> | |||
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Facial flatness as a morphological clade feature has been rejected by many anthropologists since it is found on many early African '']'' fossils, and is therefore considered plesiomorphic,<ref>Groves, C. P. (1989). "A regional approach to the problem of the origin of modern humans in Australasia". In: P. Mellars & C. B. Stringer (eds), ''The Human Revolution''. ]. pp. 274–285.</ref> but Wu has responded that the form of facial flatness in the Chinese fossil record appears distinct to other (i.e. primitive) forms. Toetik Koesbardiati in her PhD thesis "On the Relevance of the Regional Continuity Features of the Face in East Asia" also found that a form of facial flatness is unique to China (i.e. only appears there at high frequency, very rarely elsewhere) but cautions that this is the only available evidence for regional continuity: "Only two features appear to show a tendency as suggested by the Multiregional model: flatness at the upper face expressed by an obtuse nasio-frontal angle and flatness at the middle part of the face expressed by an obtuse zygomaxillay angle". | |||
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] are commonly cited as evidence for regional continuity in China.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Woo |first1=R |date=1986 |title=Chinese human fossils and the origin of Mongoloid racial group |journal=Anthropos (Brno) |volume=23 |pages=151–55}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=X. |date=2006 |title=Evidence of Multiregional Human Evolution Hypothesis from China |journal=Quaternary Sciences |volume=26 |issue=5 |pages=702–70}}</ref> Stringer (1992) however found that shovel-shaped incisors are present on >70% of the early Holocene ] fossil sample from North Africa, and common elsewhere.<ref>Stringer, C. B. (1992). "Replacement, continuity and the origin of ''Homo sapiens''". In: ''Continuity or Replacement? Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution''. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. pp. 9–24.</ref> Frayer, et al. (1993) have criticized Stringer's method of scoring shovel-shaped incisor teeth. They discuss the fact that there are different degrees of "shovelled" e.g. trace (+), semi (++), and marked (+++), but that Stringer misleadingly lumped all these together: "...combining shoveling categories in this manner is biologically meaningless and misleading, as the statistic cannot be validly compared with the very high frequencies for the marked shoveling category reported for East Asians."<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Palaeoanthropologist Fred H. Smith (2009) also emphasizes that: "It is the {{em|pattern}} of shoveling that identities as an East Asian regional feature, not just the occurrence of shoveling of any sort".<ref name="CShuman">Cartmill, M.; Smith, F. H. (2009). ''The Human Lineage''. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 450.</ref> Multiregionalists argue that marked (+++) shovel-shaped incisors only appear in China at a high frequency, and have <10% occurrence elsewhere. | |||
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Since the early 1990s, David W. Frayer has described what he regards as a morphological clade in Europe.<ref>Frayer, D. W. (1992). "The persistence of Neanderthal features in post-Neanderthal Europeans". In: ''Continuity or Replacement: Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution''. Rotterdam: Balkema, pp. 179–88.</ref><ref>Frayer, D. W. (1992)."Evolution at the European edge: Neanderthal and the Upper Paleolithic relationships. ''Préhistoire Européene''. 2:9–69.</ref><ref>Frayer, D. W. (1997)."Perspectives on Neanderthals as ancestors". In: ''Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research''. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. pp. 220–235.</ref> The sequence starts with the earliest dated ] specimens (] and ]) traced through the mid-] (e.g. ]) to ], and late Upper Palaeolithic ]s or recent Europeans. Although many anthropologists consider Neanderthals and Cro Magnons morphologically distinct,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Harvati |first1=Katerina |last2=Frost |first2=Stephen R. |last3=McNulty |first3=Kieran P. |date=2004 |title=Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences |journal=] |volume=101 |issue=5 |pages=1147–52 |bibcode=2004PNAS..101.1147H |pmid=14745010 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0308085100 |doi-access=free |pmc=337021}}</ref><ref name="10.1002/evan.20017">{{cite journal |last=Pearson |first=Osbjorn M. |date=2004 |title=Has the Combination of Genetic and Fossil Evidence Solved the Riddle of Modern Human Origins? |journal=Evolutionary Anthropology |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=145–59 |doi=10.1002/evan.20017 |s2cid=31478877}}</ref> Frayer maintains quite the opposite and points to their similarities, which he argues is evidence for regional continuity: | |||
| quote = "When multiple measurements are undertaken, the mean result can be determined through averaging the activity ratios. For Oase 1, this provides a weighted average activity ratio of 〈14a〉 = 1.29 ± 0.15%, resulting in a combined OxA-GrA 14C age of 34,950, +990, and –890 B.P." | |||
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{{Blockquote|"Contrary to Brauer's recent pronouncement that there is a large and generally recognized morphological gap between the Neanderthals and the early moderns, the actual evidence provided by the extensive fossil record of late Pleistocene Europe shows considerable continuity between Neanderthals and subsequent Europeans."<ref name="ReferenceA"/>}} | |||
In Europe around 40-30 ] evolved ] ] between intermixed Neanderthal traits on west and ] on east. The human population ] continuity exist in subsequent generations.<ref name=Duarte1999/><ref name=Trinkhaus2/> | |||
Frayer et al. (1993) consider there to be at least four features in combination that are unique to the European fossil record: a horizontal-oval shaped ], anterior mastoid tubercle, ], and narrowing of the nasal breadth associated with tooth-size reduction. Regarding the latter, Frayer observes a sequence of nasal narrowing in Neanderthals, following through to late Upper Palaeolithic and Holocene (Mesolithic) crania. His claims are disputed by others,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holton |first1=N. E. |last2=Franciscus |first2=R. G. |date=2008 |title=The paradox of a wide nasal aperture in cold-adapted Neandertals: a causal assessment |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=55 |issue=6 |pages=942–51 |bibcode=2008JHumE..55..942H |pmid=18842288 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.07.001}}</ref> but have received support from Wolpoff, who regards late Neanderthal specimens to be "transitional" in nasal form between earlier Neanderthals and later Cro Magnons.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolpoff |first=M. H. |date=1989 |contribution=The place of Neanderthals in human evolution |title=The Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural Adaptations in the Later Pleistocene |editor-last=Trinkaus |editor-first=Erik |editor-link=Erik Trinkaus |publisher=] |pages=97–41}}</ref> Based on other cranial similarities, Wolpoff et al. (2004) argue for a sizable Neanderthal contribution to modern Europeans.<ref name="10.1080/0043824042000303700">{{cite journal |title=Why not the Neandertals? |date=2004 |last1=Wolpoff |first1=Milford |last2=Mannheim |first2=Bruce |last3=Mann |first3=Alan |last4=Hawks |first4=John D. |author4-link=John D. Hawks |last5=Caspari |first5=Rachel |last6=Rosenberg |first6=Karen R. |last7=Frayer |first7=David W. |last8=Gill |first8=George W. |last9=Clark |first9=Geoffrey |journal=World Archaeology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=527–46 |doi=10.1080/0043824042000303700 |s2cid=2507757}}</ref> | |||
More recent claims regarding continuity in skeletal morphology in Europe focus on fossils with both Neanderthal and modern anatomical traits, to provide evidence of interbreeding rather than replacement.<ref name="doi=10.1073/pnas.0702214104">{{cite journal |date=May 2007 |last=Trinkaus |first=Erik |author-link=Erik Trinkaus |title=European early modern humans and the fate of the Neandertals |volume=104 |issue=18 |pages=7367–72 |issn=0027-8424 |journal=] |bibcode=2007PNAS..104.7367T |pmid=17452632 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0702214104 |doi-access=free |pmc=1863481}}</ref><ref></ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=F. H. |last2=Janković |first2=I. |last3=Karavanić |first3=I. |date=2005 |title=The assimilation model, modern human origins in Europe, and the extinction of Neandertals |journal=Quaternary International |volume=137 |issue=1 |pages=7–19 |bibcode=2005QuInt.137....7S |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2004.11.016}}</ref> Examples include the '']'' found in Portugal<ref name="Duarte1999">{{cite journal |title=The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia |last1=Duarte |first1=C. |last2=Maurício |first2=J. |last3=Pettitt |first3=P. |last4=Souto |first4=P. |last5=Trinkaus |first5=E. |author5-link=Erik Trinkaus |last6=van der Plicht |first6=H. |last7=Zilhão |first7=J. |date=1999 |journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci USA |volume=96 |issue=13 |pages=7604–09 |bibcode=1999PNAS...96.7604D |pmid=10377462 |doi=10.1073/pnas.96.13.7604 |doi-access=free |pmc=22133}}</ref> and the ''Oase 1'' mandible from ], Romania,<ref name="10.1073/pnas.2035108100">{{cite journal |date=September 2003 |last1=Trinkaus |first1=E. |last2=Moldovan |first2=O. |last3=Milota |first3=S. |last4=Bîlgăr |first4=A. |last5=Sarcina |first5=L. |last6=Athreya |first6=S. |last7=Bailey |first7=S. E. |last8=Rodrigo |first8=R. |last9=Mircea |first9=G. |last10=Higham |first10=T. |last11=Ramsey |first11=C. B. |last12=van der Plicht |first12=J. |title=An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania |journal=] |volume=100 |issue=20 |pages=11231–36 |issn=0027-8424 |bibcode=2003PNAS..10011231T |pmid=14504393 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2035108100 |doi-access=free |pmc=208740 |quote=When multiple measurements are undertaken, the mean result can be determined through averaging the activity ratios. For Oase 1, this provides a weighted average activity ratio of 〈14a〉=1.29 ± 0.15%, resulting in a combined OxA-GrA 14C age of 34,950, +990, and −890 B.P.}}</ref> though the "Lapedo child" is disputed by some.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Hominids and hybrids: The place of Neanderthals in human evolution |last1=Tattersall |first1=Ian |last2=Schwartz |first2=Jeffrey H. |date=1999 |journal=] |volume=96 |issue=13 |pages=7117–19 |bibcode=1999PNAS...96.7117T |pmid=10377375 |doi=10.1073/pnas.96.13.7117 |doi-access=free |pmc=33580}}</ref> | |||
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===Mitochondrial Eve=== | |||
A 1987 analysis of mitochondrial DNA from 147 people by Cann et al. from around the world indicated that their mitochondrial lineages all coalesced in a ] from Africa between 140,000 and 290,000 years ago.<ref name="10.1038/325031a0">{{cite journal |last1=Cann |first1=Rebecca L. |last2=Stoneking |first2=Mark |last3=Wilson |first3=Allan C. |title=Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution |journal=] |volume=325 |issue=6099 |pages=31–36 |date=1 January 1987 |bibcode=1987Natur.325...31C |pmid=3025745 |doi=10.1038/325031a0 |s2cid=4285418 |url=http://artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/html/cann/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813121953/http://artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/html/cann/ |archive-date=13 August 2010}}</ref> The analysis suggested that this reflected the worldwide expansion of modern humans as a new species, replacing, rather than mixing with, local archaic humans outside of Africa. Such a recent replacement scenario is not compatible with the Multiregional hypothesis and the mtDNA results led to increased popularity for the alternative ].<ref name="HavilandPrins2009">{{cite book |last1=McBride |first1=B. |last2=Haviland |first2=W. E. |last3=Prins |first3=H. E. |last4=Walrath |first4=D. |title=The Essence of Anthropology |publisher=Wadsworth Publishing |location=Belmont, CA |date=2009 |page=90 |isbn=978-0-495-59981-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmvJ1XtnIQoC&pg=PA90}}</ref><ref name="HetheringtonReid2010">{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=G. R. |last2=Hetherington |first2=R. |title=The climate connection: climate change and modern human evolution |publisher=] |date=2010 |isbn=978-0-521-14723-1 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAja8FTPF6QC&pg=PA64}}</ref><ref name="Meredith2011">{{cite book |last=Meredith |first=M |title=Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life |publisher=PublicAffairs |location=New York |date=2011 |isbn=978-1-58648-663-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WrR9OShae2wC&pg=PT148}}</ref> According to Wolpoff and colleagues:<ref>Wolpoff, M.; Caspari, R. (1997). ''Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction''. New York: ]. p. 213.</ref> | |||
{{Blockquote|When they were first published, the Mitochondrial Eve results were clearly incongruous with Multiregional evolution, and we wondered how the two could be reconciled.}} | |||
Multiregionalists have responded to what they see as flaws in the Eve theory,<ref>Wolpoff, M.; Thorne, A. (1991) "The case against Eve" ''New Scientist'' 130(1774): 37–41</ref> and have offered contrary genetic evidences.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Curnoe |first1=D. |last2=Thorne |first2=A. G. |date=2003 |title=Number of ancestral human species: a molecular perspective |journal=Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=201–24 |pmid=12733395 |doi=10.1078/0018-442x-00051}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Wu |first=X. |date=2004 |title=Discussion on the results of some molecular studies concerning the origin of modern Chinese |journal=Acta Anthropologica Sinica |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=259–69}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thorne |first1=A. G. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |last3=Eckhardt |first3=R. B. |date=1993 |title=Genetic variation in Africa |journal=] |volume=261 |issue=5128 |pages=1507–1508 |bibcode=1993Sci...261.1507T |pmid=8372344 |doi=10.1126/science.8372344}}</ref> Wu and Thorne have questioned the reliability of the ] used to date Eve.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=Xinzhi |last2=Gao |first2=Xing |last3=Zhang |first3=X. |last4=Yang |first4=D. |last5=Shen |first5=C. |date=2010 |title=Revisiting the origin of modern humans in China and its implications for global human evolution |journal=Science China Earth Sciences |volume=53 |issue=12 |pages=1927–40 |bibcode=2010ScChD..53.1927G |doi=10.1007/s11430-010-4099-4 |s2cid=195307737}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thorne |first1=A. G. |last2=Curnoe |first2=D. |date=2006 |title=What is the real age of Adam and Eve? Proceedings of the Australian Society of Human Biology |journal=Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology |volume=57 |page=240}}</ref> Multiregionalists point out that Mitochondrial DNA alone can not rule out interbreeding between early modern and archaic humans, since archaic human mitochondrial strains from such interbreeding could have been lost due to ] or a ].<ref name="10.1038/hdy.2008.14">{{cite journal |last=Relethford |first=J. H. |date=5 March 2008 |title=Genetic evidence and the modern human origins debate |journal=Heredity |volume=100 |issue=6 |pages=555–63 |pmid=18322457 |doi=10.1038/hdy.2008.14 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="johnhawks.weaver_roseman_2005">{{cite web |title=Selection, nuclear genetic variation, and mtDNA |last=Hawks |first=John D. |author-link=John D. Hawks |work=JohnHawks.net |date=5 September 2005 |url=http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal_dna/weaver_roseman_2005.html |access-date=5 January 2011}}</ref> Wolpoff for example states that Eve is "not the most recent common ancestor of all living people" since "Mitochondrial history is not population history".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Thorne |first1=A. G. |last2=Wolpoff |first2=M. H. |date=2003 |title=The Multiregional Evolution of Humans |magazine=] |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=46–53}}</ref> | |||
===Neanderthal mtDNA=== | |||
Neanderthal ] (]) sequences from ] and ] are substantially different from modern human mtDNA.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krings |first1=M. |last2=Stone |first2=A. |last3=Schmitz |first3=R. W. |last4=Krainitzki |first4=H. |last5=Stoneking |first5=M. |last6=Pääbo |first6=S. |author6-link=Svante Pääbo |title=Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans |journal=Cell |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=19–30 |date=July 1997 |pmid=9230299 |doi=10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80310-4 |hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0025-0960-8 |hdl-access=free |s2cid=13581775}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krings |first1=M. |last2=Capelli |first2=C. |last3=Tschentscher |first3=F. |last4=Geisert |first4=H. |last5=Meyer |first5=S. |last6=von Haeseler |first6=A. |display-authors=etal |date=2000 |title=A view of Neandertal genetic diversity |journal=] |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=144–46 |pmid=11017066 |doi=10.1038/79855 |s2cid=10426584}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=C. C. |last2=Farina |first2=S. E. |last3=Li |first3=H. |date=2013 |title=Neanderthal DNA and modern human origins |journal=Quaternary International |volume=295 |pages=126–29 |bibcode=2013QuInt.295..126W |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.027}}</ref> Multiregionalists however have discussed the fact that the average difference between the Feldhofer sequence and living humans is less than that found between chimpanzee subspecies,<ref name="10.1002/ajpa.1060"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wolpoff |first1=M. |date=1998 |title=Concocting a Divisive Theory |journal=Evolutionary Anthropology |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=1–3 |doi=10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)7:1<1::aid-evan1>3.3.co;2-w |doi-access=free |hdl=2027.42/38589 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> and therefore that while Neanderthals were different ], they were still human and part of the same lineage. | |||
===Nuclear DNA=== | |||
Initial analysis of ] DNA, which like mitochondrial DNA, is inherited from only one parent, was consistent with a recent African replacement model. However, the mitochondrial and Y chromosome data could not be explained by the same modern human expansion out of Africa; the Y chromosome expansion would have involved genetic mixing that retained regionally local mitochondrial lines. In addition, the Y chromosome data indicated a later expansion back into Africa from Asia, demonstrating that gene flow between regions was not unidirectional.<ref name="Hammer1998">{{cite journal |last=Hammer |first=M. F. |display-authors=etal |title=Out of Africa and Back Again: Nested Cladistic Analysis of Human Y Chromosome Variation |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=427–41 |date=1998 |pmid=9549093 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025939 |doi-access=free |url=http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/4/427.short}}</ref> | |||
An early analysis of 15 noncoding sites on the ] found additional inconsistencies with the recent African replacement hypothesis. The analysis found a multimodal distribution of ] to the most recent common ancestor for those sites, contrary to the predictions for recent African replacement; in particular, there were more coalescence times near 2 million years ago (]) than expected, suggesting an ancient population split around the time ] first emerged from Africa as ''Homo erectus'', rather than more recently as suggested by the mitochondrial data. While most of these X chromosome sites showed greater diversity in Africa, consistent with African origins, a few of the sites showed greater diversity in Asia rather than Africa. For four of the 15 gene sites that did show greater diversity in Africa, the sites' varying diversity by region could not be explained by simple expansion from Africa, as would be required by the recent African replacement hypothesis.<ref name="10.1534/genetics.103.025361">{{cite journal |last1=Hammer |first1=M. F. |last2=Garrigan |first2=D. |last3=Wood |first3=E. |last4=Wilder |first4=J. A. |last5=Mobasher |first5=Z. |last6=Bigham |first6=A. |last7=Krenz |first7=J. G. |last8=Nachman |first8=M. W. |title=Heterogeneous patterns of variation among multiple human X-linked loci: The possible role of diversity-reducing selection in non-africans |journal=] |volume=167 |issue=4 |pages=1841–53 |date=August 2004 |issn=0016-6731 |pmid=15342522 |doi=10.1534/genetics.103.025361 |pmc=1470985 |url=http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/167/4/1841?ijkey=cb14a3724516d1a584feb8454d2c49cd72e003ee&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha}} Additional discussion of these results is available in a video of a presentation given by Hammer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff0jwWaPlnU (video) from about 40 to 50 minutes into the video.</ref> | |||
By analysing haplotype data, Alan Templeton found support for three waves of human migration out of Africa, the first being 1.9 million years ago, and concluded that it was impossible that existing Eurasian populations had not interbred with African migrants.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2004/1151858.htm|title=Are We Neanderthals?|last=Williams|first=Robyn|date=2004|work=The Science Show|publisher=ABC Radio|accessdate=2009-05-30}}</ref> | |||
Later analyses of X chromosome and ] DNA continued to find sites with deep coalescence times inconsistent with a single origin of modern humans,<ref name="10.1534/genetics.105.046995">The CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase ] pseudogene shows 2.9 Mya coalescence time. {{cite journal |last1=Hayakawa |first1=T. |last2=Aki |first2=I. |last3=Varki |first3=A. |last4=Satta |first4=Y. |last5=Takahata |first5=N. |title=Fixation of the human-specific CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase pseudogene and implications of haplotype diversity for human evolution |journal=] |volume=172 |issue=2 |pages=1139–46 |date=February 2006 |issn=0016-6731 |pmid=16272417 |doi=10.1534/genetics.105.046995 |pmc=1456212}}</ref><ref name="10.1073/pnas.96.6.2582">The PDHA1 (]) locus on the X chromosome has an estimated coalescence time of 1.86 Mya, inconsistent with a recent species origin, although the worldwide lineage pattern is unlike other autosomal sites and may be consistent with recent dispersal from Africa. {{cite journal |last=Harding |first=Rosalind M. |title=More on the X files |journal=] |volume=96 |issue=6 |pages=2582–84 |date=16 March 1999 |bibcode=1999PNAS...96.2582H |pmid=10077551 |doi=10.1073/pnas.96.6.2582 |doi-access=free |pmc=33533}}</ref><ref name="doi=10.1073/pnas.96.6.3320">A second group finds the same ancient origin for PDHA1, but finds no evidence of a recent expansion, consistent with other autosomal and X chromosome sites and contrary to mitochondrial data. {{cite journal |last1=Harris |first1=E. E. |last2=Hey |first2=Jody |title=X chromosome evidence for ancient human histories |journal=] |volume=96 |issue=6 |pages=3320–24 |date=1999 |bibcode=1999PNAS...96.3320H |pmid=10077682 |doi=10.1073/pnas.96.6.3320 |doi-access=free |pmc=15940}}</ref><ref name="10.1534/genetics.107.083691">The ] gene has two recently differentiated lineages with a ] 2.4±.4 Mya not explainable by ]. The V lineage shows evidence of recent positive selection. The lineage pattern may be the result of hybridization during a recent range expansion from Africa with the V lineage tracing to archaic humans from outside Africa, though it is also consistent with a mixture of two long isolated groups within Africa; it is not consistent with a recent origination of a modern human species that replaced archaic forms without interbreeding. {{cite journal |last1=Kim |first1=H. 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Studies on past ]s that can be inferred from molecular data have led multiregionalists to conclude that the recent single-origin hypothesis is untenable because there are no population size bottlenecks affecting all genes that are more recent than 2 million years ago. | |||
In 2001, a ] study of more than 12,000 men from 163 East Asian regions showed that all of them carry a mutation that originated in Africa about 35,000 to 89,000 years ago and these "data do not support even a minimal '']'' hominid contribution in the origin of anatomically modern humans in East Asia".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ke |first1=Yuehai |display-authors=etal |date=2001 |title=African Origin of Modern Humans in East Asia: A Tale of 12,000 Y Chromosomes |journal=] |volume=292 |issue=5519 |pages=1151–53 |bibcode=2001Sci...292.1151K |pmid=11349147 |doi=10.1126/science.1060011 |s2cid=32685801}}</ref> | |||
*] D allele introgressed into the modern human gene pool points to the Neanderthal lineage as possible source and compelling evidence of admixture among the human loci.<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2006 | |||
| month = Nov | |||
| author = Evans, Pd; Mekel-Bobrov, N; Vallender, Ej; Hudson, Rr; Lahn, Bt | |||
| title = Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage | |||
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| quote = "... As such, microcephalin shows by far the most compelling evidence of admixture among the human loci examined thus far. Speculation about the identity of the archaic Homo population from which the microcephalin D allele introgressed into the modern human gene pool '''points to the Neanderthal lineage''' as a potential (although by no means only) candidate. Anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals shared a long period of coexistence, from as early as 130,000 years ago in the Middle East (39) to as late as 35,000 years ago in Europe (40), consistent with the estimated introgression time of the microcephalin D allele at or sometime before (approx)37,000 years ago. Furthermore, the worldwide frequency distribution of the D allele, exceptionally high outside of Africa but low in sub-Saharan Africa (29), suggests, but does not necessitate, admixture with an archaic Eurasian population. ..." | |||
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| title = Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans | |||
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| journal = Science (New York, N.Y.) | |||
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*RRM2P4<ref>sequence and gene tree for RRM2P4 haplotypes </ref> (] M2 subunit ] 4) <ref name=Cox2008/>. Present day human population ]s A and B have 2.3 ] time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA).<ref>Time-scaled gene tree of the RRM2P4. TMRCA between A, B clades 2.3 Mya </ref> The gene tree branches of RRM2P4 point to eastern Asian ancestry.<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2005 | |||
| month = Feb | |||
| author = Garrigan, D; Mobasher, Z; Severson, T; Wilder, Ja; Hammer, Mf | |||
| title = Evidence for archaic Asian ancestry on the human X chromosome | |||
| volume = 22 | |||
| issue = 2 | |||
| pages = 189–92 | |||
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| journal = Molecular biology and evolution | |||
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*PDHA1 (]) locus on X chromosome has estimated coalescent-time depth of 1.86 Ma.<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
| title = More on the X files | |||
| author = Rosalind M. Harding | |||
| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | |||
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| quote = "the pattern of diversity at the PDHA1 locus unexpected is that this extreme structure is observed in a polymorphism with an estimated total coalescent-time depth of 1.86 million years"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2005 | |||
| month = Feb | |||
| author = Garrigan, D; Mobasher, Z; Severson, T; Wilder, Ja; Hammer, Mf | |||
| title = Evidence for archaic Asian ancestry on the human X chromosome | |||
| volume = 22 | |||
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| journal = Molecular biology and evolution | |||
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| title = X chromosome evidence for ancient human histories | |||
| year = 1999 | |||
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*] locus ]q21.3 split into deep genetic lineages H1 and H2 . H2 lineage in European population sugest inheritance from Neanderthals <ref>{{Cite journal | |||
| title = Evidence suggesting that Homo neanderthalensis contributed the H2 MAPT haplotype to Homo sapiens | |||
| author =J. Hardy, A. Pittman, A. Myers, K. Gwinn-Hardy, H.C. Fung, R. de Silva, M. Hutton and J. Duckworth | |||
| journal = Biochemical Society Transactions | |||
| year = 2005 | |||
| volume = 33, part 4; | |||
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| quote = "We suggest that the H2 haplotype is derived from Homo neanderthalensis and entered H. sapiens populations during the coexistence of these species in Europe from approx. 45 000 to 18 000 years ago and that the H2 haplotype has been under selection pressure since that time, possibly because of the role of this H1 haplotype in neurodegenerative disease."..."The tau (MAPT ) locus is very unusual. Over a region of approx. 1.8 Mb, there are two haplotype clades in European populations, H1 and H2 . In other populations, only the H1 occurs and shows a normal pattern of recombination"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2006 | |||
| month = Sep | |||
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| title = Microdeletion encompassing MAPT at chromosome 17q21.3 is associated with developmental delay and learning disability | |||
| volume = 38 | |||
| issue = 9 | |||
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| issn = 1061-4036 | |||
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| title = Evolutionary toggling of the MAPT 17q21.31 inversion region | |||
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| journal = Nature genetics | |||
}}</ref><ref>] and microcephalin FAQ ] </ref><ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2008 | |||
| month = Nov | |||
| author = Almos, Pz; Horváth, S; Czibula, A; Raskó, I; Sipos, B; Bihari, P; Béres, J; Juhász, A; Janka, Z; Kálmán, J | |||
| title = H1 tau haplotype-related genomic variation at 17q21.3 as an Asian heritage of the European Gypsy population | |||
| volume = 101 | |||
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| quote ="In this study, we examine the frequency of a 900 kb inversion at 17q21.3 in the Gypsy and Caucasian populations of Hungary, which may reflect the Asian origin of Gypsy populations. Of the two haplotypes (H1 and H2), H2 is thought to be exclusively of Caucasian origin, and its occurrence in other racial groups is likely to reflect admixture. In our sample, the H1 haplotype was significantly more frequent in the Gypsy population (89.8 vs 75.5%, P<0.001) and was in Hardy–Weinberg disequilibrium (P=0.017). The 17q21.3 region includes the gene of microtubule-associated protein tau, and this result might imply higher sensitivity to H1 haplotype-related multifactorial tauopathies among Gypsies."}}</ref>. | |||
*]. Related to mental activity N-Acylsphingosine Amidohydrolase gene two V and M deep genetic lineages<ref>] SL and ML region SNP DNA seguences </ref> have ] 2.4±.4 Ma.<ref>http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content-nw/full/178/3/1505/FIG4</ref> ] 62% and small nucleotide diversity 0.05% indicate a signature of positive Darwinian selection for the V lineage. The M lineage is attributed to ancient population structure of humans in Africa.<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2008 | |||
| month = Mar | |||
| author = Kim, Hl; Satta, Y | |||
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| pmid = 18245333 | |||
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| quote = "..heterozygosity with V and M .. observed value in the sample is 0.23, which is significantly lower..in both the African and non-African samples.. the V and M lineages have been maintained in a partially isolated subpopulation.. it should be noted that the pattern of genetic diversity of ASAH1 and other loci is compatible with the proposal that the human population was once geographically structured.." | |||
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*X-chromosome genes DMD44, APXL, AMELX, TNFSF5 show S-N heterogeneous patterns of variation and may play role in diversity-reducing selection in non-africans<ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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| year = 2004 | |||
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| title = Heterogeneous patterns of variation among multiple human x-linked Loci: the possible role of diversity-reducing selection in non-africans | |||
| volume = 167 | |||
| issue = 4 | |||
| pages = 1841–53 | |||
| issn = 0016-6731 | |||
| pmid = 15342522 | |||
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| quote = "...results indicate that a simple out-of-Africa bottleneck model is not sufficient to explain the observed patterns of sequence variation and that diversity-reducing selection acting at a subset of loci and/or a more complex neutral model must be invoked." | |||
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*] CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase pseudogene show 2.9 Ma genetic history <ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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*Genome polymorphism: ] ]: known 5-million-base pair (Mbp) 8p23.1, 1-Mbp on 17q21.3 and novel 1.2-Mbp on 15q24, 2.1-Mbp 15q13, 1.7-Mbp 17q12 . In the sample of 8 gnomes from worldwide sample including Youruba Kidd&al group found 4 million SNPs and 796,273 small indels (1−100 bp in size); 15 large regions of excess nucleotide variation 500 kbp to 3 Mbp. Two of variable sites are described detailed above. <ref>{{Cite journal | |||
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In a 2005 review and analysis of the genetic lineages of 25 chromosomal regions, ] found evidence of more than 34 occurrences of gene flow between Africa and Eurasia. Of these occurrences, 19 were associated with continuous restricted gene exchange through at least 1.46 million years ago; only 5 were associated with a recent expansion from Africa to Eurasia. Three were associated with the original expansion of ''Homo erectus'' out of Africa around 2 million years ago, 7 with an intermediate expansion out of Africa at a date consistent with the expansion of ] tool technology, and a few others with other gene flows such as an expansion out of Eurasia and back into Africa subsequent to the most recent expansion out of Africa. Templeton rejected a hypothesis of complete recent African replacement with greater than 99% certainty (] < 10<sup>−17</sup>).<ref name="10.1002/ajpa.20351">{{cite journal |last=Templeton |first=Alan R. |title=Haplotype Trees and Modern Human Origins |journal=] |volume=48 |issue=S41 |pages=33–59 |date=2005 |pmid=16369961 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.20351 |url=http://esa.ipb.pt/pdf/28.pdf}}</ref> | |||
Proponents of the multiregional hypothesis show ] of several ] in the ] with million year old genealogy<ref>Evidence for Archaic Asian Ancestry on the Human X Chromosome; Daniel Garrigan, Zahra Mobasher, Tesa Severson, Jason A. Wilder and Michael F. Hammer; Molecular Biology and Evolution 2005 22(2):189-192; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi013 </ref><ref>Deep Haplotype Divergence and Long-Range Linkage Disequilibrium at Xp21.1 Provide Evidence That Humans Descend From a Structured Ancestral Population; Daniel Garrigan, Zahra Mobasher, Sarah B. Kingan, Jason A. Wilder and Michael F. Hammer; Genetics, Vol. 170, 1849-1856, August 2005, Copyright © 2005 | |||
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Philipp Gunza, Fred L. Booksteina, Philipp Mitteroeckera, Andrea Stadlmayra, Horst Seidlera and Gerhard W. Webera; 10.1073/pnas.0808160106 </ref>. Those data of deep genetic lineages are explained in the multiregional theory framework as a result of ] from ''] ancestral population''<ref></ref>. The data are not interpreted in light of the ] hypothesis postulating recent replacement where separated million years ago genetic lineages are at best unpredicted. | |||
<ref>Ancient lineages in the genome: A response to Fagundes et al; | |||
Daniel Garrigan and Michael F. Hammer; doi:10.1534/genetics.105.041095 </ref><ref>Reply to Garrigan and Hammer: Ancient lineages and assimilation; | |||
Nelson J. R. Fagundes, Nicolas Ray, Mark Beaumont, Samuel Neuenschwande, Francisco M. Salzano†, Sandro L. Bonatto and Laurent Excoffier ;10.1073/pnas.0711261105 quote:''We must repeat that our results do not exclude the occurrence of some admixture events between modern and archaic humans,''</ref> | |||
===Ancient DNA=== | |||
==Criticism of the multiregional hypothesis== | |||
{{Main|Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans}} | |||
A competing theory, the ] (also known as "Out of Africa"), has emerged as the near consensus view since the 1990s,<ref name="dx.doi.org"/><ref>{{cite journal | |||
Recent analyses of DNA taken directly from Neanderthal specimens indicates that they or their ancestors contributed to the genome of all humans outside of Africa, indicating there was some degree of interbreeding with Neanderthals before their replacement.<ref> | |||
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By 2006, extraction of DNA directly from some archaic human samples was becoming possible. The earliest analyses were of Neanderthal DNA, and indicated that the Neanderthal contribution to modern human genetic diversity was no more than 20%, with a most likely value of 0%.<ref name="10.1126/science.1131412">{{cite journal |last1=Noonan |first1=James P. |display-authors=etal |title=Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA |journal=Science |volume=314 |issue=5802 |pages=1113–18 |date=17 November 2006 |bibcode=2006Sci...314.1113N |pmid=17110569 |doi=10.1126/science.1131412 |pmc=2583069}}</ref> By 2010, however, detailed DNA sequencing of the Neanderthal specimens from Europe indicated that the contribution was nonzero, with Neanderthals sharing 1-4% more genetic variants with living non-Africans than with living humans in sub-Saharan Africa.<ref name="10.1126/science.1188021">{{cite journal |last1=Green |first1=Richard E. |display-authors=etal |title=A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome |journal=] |volume=328 |issue=5979 |pages=710–22 |date=7 May 2010 |bibcode=2010Sci...328..710G |pmid=20448178 |doi=10.1126/science.1188021 |pmc=5100745}}</ref><ref name="johnhawks.neandertals-live-genome-sequencing-2010">{{cite web |title=Neandertals Live! |last=Hawks |first=John D. |author-link=John D. Hawks |work=JohnHawks.net |date=6 May 2010 |url=https://johnhawks.net/weblog/my-reactions-on-the-publication-of-the-first-draft-neandertal-genome/ |access-date=31 December 2010}}</ref> In late 2010, a recently discovered non-Neanderthal archaic human, the ] from south-western Siberia, was found to share 4–6% more of its genome with living Melanesian humans than with any other living group, supporting admixture between two regions outside of Africa.<ref name="10.1038/nature09710">{{cite journal |last1=Reich |first1=David |display-authors=etal |title=Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia |journal=] |volume=468 |issue=7327 |pages=1053–60 |date=23 December 2010 |bibcode=2010Natur.468.1053R |pmid=21179161 |doi=10.1038/nature09710 |pmc=4306417}}</ref><ref name="johnhawks.denisova-nuclear-genome-reich-2010">{{cite web |title=The Denisova genome FAQ |last=Hawks |first=John D. |author-link=John D. Hawks |work=JohnHawks.net |date=22 December 2010 |url=http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal_dna/denisova-nuclear-genome-reich-2010.html |access-date=31 December 2010}}</ref> In August 2011, ] alleles from the archaic Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes were found to show patterns in the modern human population demonstrating origins from these non-African populations; the ancestry from these archaic alleles at the HLA-A site was more than 50% for modern Europeans, 70% for Asians, and 95% for Papua New Guineans.<ref name="10.1126/science.1209202">{{cite journal |last1=Abi-Rached |first1=Laurent |display-authors=etal |title=The Shaping of Modern Human Immune Systems by Multiregional Admixture with Archaic Humans |journal=] |volume=334 |issue=6052 |pages=89–94 |date=25 August 2011 |bibcode=2011Sci...334...89A |pmid=21868630 |doi=10.1126/science.1209202 |pmc=3677943}}</ref> Proponents of the multiregional hypothesis believe the combination of regional continuity inside and outside of Africa and lateral gene transfer between various regions around the world supports the multiregional hypothesis. However, "Out of Africa" Theory proponents also explain this with the fact that genetic changes occur on a regional basis rather than a continental basis, and populations close to each other are likely to share certain specific regional SNPs while sharing most other genes in common.<ref name="Witherspoon et al 2007">* {{cite journal |last1=Witherspoon |first1=D. J. |last2=Wooding |first2=S. |last3=Rogers |first3=A. R. |last4=Marchani |first4=E. E. |last5=Watkins |first5=W. S. |last6=Batzer |first6=M. A. |last7=Jorde |first7=L. B. |title=Genetic Similarities Within and Between Human Populations |journal=] |volume=176 |issue=1 |pages=351–59 |date=2007 |pmid=17339205 |doi=10.1534/genetics.106.067355 |pmc=1893020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Witherspoon |first1=D. J. |last2=Wooding |first2=S. |last3=Rogers |first3=A. R. |display-authors=etal |title=Genetic Similarities Within and Between Human Populations |journal=] |volume=176 |issue=1 |pages=351–59 |date=May 2007 |pmid=17339205 |doi=10.1534/genetics.106.067355 |pmc=1893020}}</ref> | |||
In 1997, sequencing mitochondrial ] extracted from 37,000 years old Neanderthal skeleton showed modern humans and Neanderthals differ.{{Clarify|date=August 2009}} However, the largest example of sequenced Neanderthal nuclear DNA comprised 1 million base pairs compared to a human nuclear genome size of roughly 3 billion base pairs. This amounts to a comparison of only 0.033% of the genomes.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} | |||
Migration Matrix theory (A=Mt) indicates that dependent upon the potential contribution of Neanderthal ancestry, we would be able to calculate the percentage of Neanderthal mtDNA contribution to the human species. As we do not know the specific migration matrix, we are unable to input the exact data, which would answer these questions irrefutably.<ref name="10.1002/ajpa.1060">{{cite journal |last=Relethford |first=John. H. |title=Absence of Regional Affinities of Neandertal DNA with Living Humans Does Not Reject Multiregional Evolution |journal=] |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=95–98 |date=12 April 2001 |pmid=11309754 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1060}}</ref> | |||
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* {{cite journal |last=Marwick |first=Ben |date=1 June 2009 |orig-date=23 July 2008 |title=Biogeography of Middle Pleistocene hominins in mainland Southeast Asia: A review of current evidence |journal=Quaternary International |volume=202 |issue=1–2 |pages=51–58 |bibcode=2009QuInt.202...51M |via=Academia.edu |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2008.01.012 |url=https://www.academia.edu/189705 |access-date=4 April 2014}} | |||
*{{cite journal|last=Templeton|first=AR|date=2002|title=Out of Africa again and again|journal=Nature|volume=416|pages=45–51}} | |||
*{{cite journal|last=Pearson|first=Osbjorn M|date=2004|title=Has the Combination of Genetic and Fossil Evidence Solved the Riddle of Modern Human Origins?|journal=Evolutionary Anthropology|volume=13|pages=145-159}} | |||
*{{cite journal|last=Adams|first=J|date=2008|title=Human Evolutionary Tree|journal=Nature Education|publisher=Macmillian|volume=1|issue=1|url=http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Human-Evolutionary-Tree-417}} | |||
*{{cite web|url=http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html|title=Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa?|last=Johanson|first=Donald C|date=May 2001|work=ActionBioscience|accessdate=2009-05-30}} | |||
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* - 'Genomics refutes an exclusively African origin of humans' (pdf) Vinayak Eswaran, Henry Harpending, Alan R. Rogers, Journal of Human Evolution (2005) | |||
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* - 'Deep Haplotype Divergence and Long-Range Linkage Disequilibrium at Xp21.1 Provide Evidence That Humans Descend From a Structured Ancestral Population' (first genetic evidence that statistically rejects the null hypothesis that our species descends from a single, historically panmictic population), Daniel Garrigan, Zahra Mobasher, Sarah B. Kingan, Jason A. Wilder, and Michael F. Hammer, ], Genetics, Vol. 170, 1849-1856, August 2005 | |||
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Human evolution hypothesisThe multiregional hypothesis, multiregional evolution (MRE), or polycentric hypothesis, is a scientific model that provides an alternative explanation to the more widely accepted "Out of Africa" model of monogenesis for the pattern of human evolution.
Multiregional evolution holds that the human species first arose around two million years ago and subsequent human evolution has been within a single, continuous human species. This species encompasses all archaic human forms such as Homo erectus, Denisovans, and Neanderthals as well as modern forms, and evolved worldwide to the diverse populations of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
The hypothesis contends that the mechanism of clinal variation through a model of "centre and edge" allowed for the necessary balance between genetic drift, gene flow, and selection throughout the Pleistocene, as well as overall evolution as a global species, but while retaining regional differences in certain morphological features. Proponents of multiregionalism point to fossil and genomic data and continuity of archaeological cultures as support for their hypothesis.
The multiregional hypothesis was first proposed in 1984, and then revised in 2003. In its revised form, it is similar to the assimilation model, which holds that modern humans originated in Africa and today share a predominant recent African origin, but have also absorbed small, geographically variable, degrees of admixture from other regional (archaic) hominin species.
The multiregional hypothesis is not currently the most accepted theory of modern human origin among scientists. "The African replacement model has gained the widest acceptance owing mainly to genetic data (particularly mitochondrial DNA) from existing populations. This model is consistent with the realization that modern humans cannot be classified into subspecies or races, and it recognizes that all populations of present-day humans share the same potential." The African replacement model is also known as the "out of Africa" theory, which is currently the most widely accepted model. It proposes that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa before migrating across the world." And: "The primary competing scientific hypothesis is currently recent African origin of modern humans, which proposes that modern humans arose as a new species in Africa around 100-200,000 years ago, moving out of Africa around 50-60,000 years ago to replace existing human species such as Homo erectus and the Neanderthals without interbreeding. This differs from the multiregional hypothesis in that the multiregional model predicts interbreeding with preexisting local human populations in any such migration."
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Overview
The Multiregional hypothesis was proposed in 1984 by Milford H. Wolpoff, Alan Thorne and Xinzhi Wu. Wolpoff credits Franz Weidenreich's "Polycentric" hypothesis of human origins as a major influence, but cautions that this should not be confused with polygenism, or Carleton Coon's model that minimized gene flow. According to Wolpoff, multiregionalism was misinterpreted by William W. Howells, who confused Weidenreich's hypothesis with a polygenic "candelabra model" in his publications spanning five decades:
How did Multiregional evolution get stigmatized as polygeny? We believe it comes from the confusion of Weidenreich's ideas, and ultimately of our own, with Coon's. The historic reason for linking Coon's and Weidenreich's ideas came from the mischaracterizations of Weidenreich's Polycentric model as a candelabra (Howells, 1942, 1944, 1959, 1993), that made his Polycentric model appear much more similar to Coon's than it actually was.
Through the influence of Howells, many other anthropologists and biologists have confused multiregionalism with polygenism i.e. separate or multiple origins for different populations. Alan Templeton for example notes that this confusion has led to the error that gene flow between different populations was added to the Multiregional hypothesis as a "special pleading in response to recent difficulties", despite the fact: "parallel evolution was never part of the multiregional model, much less its core, whereas gene flow was not a recent addition, but rather was present in the model from the very beginning" (emphasis in original). Despite this, multiregionalism is still confused with polygenism, or Coon's model of racial origins, from which Wolpoff and his colleagues have distanced themselves. Wolpoff has also defended Wiedenreich's Polycentric hypothesis from being labeled polyphyletic. Weidenreich himself in 1949 wrote: "I may run the risk of being misunderstood, namely that I believe in polyphyletic evolution of man".
In 1998, Wu founded a China-specific Multiregional model called "Continuity with Hybridization". Wu's variant only applies the Multiregional hypothesis to the East Asian fossil record, and is popular among Chinese scientists. However, James Leibold, a political historian of modern China, has argued the support for Wu's model is largely rooted in Chinese nationalism. Outside of China, the Multiregional hypothesis has limited support, held only by a small number of paleoanthropologists.
"Classic" vs "weak" multiregionalism
Chris Stringer, a leading proponent of the more mainstream recent African origin theory, debated Multiregionalists such as Wolpoff and Thorne in a series of publications throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. Stringer describes how he considers the original Multiregional hypothesis to have been modified over time into a weaker variant that now allows a much greater role for Africa in human evolution, including anatomical modernity (and subsequently less regional continuity than was first proposed).
Stringer distinguishes the original or "classic" Multiregional model as having existed from 1984 (its formulation) until 2003, to a "weak" post-2003 variant that has "shifted close to that of the Assimilation Model".
Genetic studies
The finding that "Mitochondrial Eve" was relatively recent and African seemed to give the upper hand to the proponents of the Out of Africa hypothesis. But in 2002, Alan Templeton published a genetic analysis involving other loci in the genome as well, and this showed that some variants that are present in modern populations existed already in Asia hundreds of thousands of years ago. This meant that even if our male line (Y chromosome) and our female line (mitochondrial DNA) came out of Africa in the last 100,000 years or so, we have inherited other genes from populations that were already outside of Africa. Since this study other studies have been done using much more data (see Phylogeography).
Fossil evidence
Morphological clades
Proponents of the multiregional hypothesis see regional continuity of certain morphological traits spanning the Pleistocene in different regions across the globe as evidence against a single replacement model from Africa. In general, three major regions are recognized: Europe, China, and Indonesia (often including Australia). Wolpoff cautions that the continuity in certain skeletal features in these regions should not be seen in a racial context, instead calling them morphological clades; defined as sets of traits that "uniquely characterise a geographic region". According to Wolpoff and Thorne (1981): "We do not regard a morphological clade as a unique lineage, nor do we believe it necessary to imply a particular taxonomic status for it". Critics of multiregionalism have pointed out that no single human trait is unique to a geographical region (i.e. confined to one population and not found in any other) but Wolpoff et al. (2000) note that regional continuity only recognizes combinations of features, not traits if individually accessed, a point they elsewhere compare to the forensic identification of a human skeleton:
Regional continuity ... 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 combinations 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.
Combinations of features are "unique" in the sense of being found in only one region, or more weakly limited to one region at high frequency (very rarely in another). Wolpoff stresses that regional continuity works in conjunction with genetic exchanges between populations. Long-term regional continuity in certain morphological traits is explained by Alan Thorne's "centre and edge" population genetics model which resolves Weidenreich's paradox of "how did populations retain geographical distinctions and yet evolve together?". For example, in 2001 Wolpoff and colleagues published an analysis of character traits of the skulls of early modern human fossils in Australia and central Europe. They concluded that the diversity of these recent humans could not "result exclusively from a single late Pleistocene dispersal", and implied dual ancestry for each region, involving interbreeding with Africans.
Indonesia, Australia
Thorne held that there was regional continuity in Indonesia and Australia for a morphological clade. This sequence is said to consist of the earliest fossils from Sangiran, Java, that can be traced through Ngandong and found in prehistoric and recent Aboriginal Australians. In 1991, Andrew Kramer tested 17 proposed morphological clade features. He found that: "a plurality (eight) of the seventeen non-metric features link Sangiran to modern Australians" and that these "are suggestive of morphological continuity, which implies the presence of a genetic continuum in Australasia dating back at least one million years" but Colin Groves has criticized Kramer's methodology, pointing out that the polarity of characters was not tested and that the study is actually inconclusive. Phillip Habgood discovered that the characters said to be unique to the Australasian region by Thorne are plesiomorphic:
...it is evident that all of the characters proposed... to be 'clade features' linking Indonesian Homo erectus material with Australian Aboriginal crania are retained primitive features present on Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens crania in general. Many are also commonly found on the crania and mandibles of anatomically-modern Homo sapiens from other geographical locations, being especially prevalent on the robust Mesolithic skeletal material from North Africa."
Yet, regardless of these criticisms Habgood (2003) allows for limited regional continuity in Indonesia and Australia, recognizing four plesiomorphic features which do not appear in such a unique combination on fossils in any other region: a sagittally flat frontal bone, with a posterior position of minimum frontal breadth, great facial prognathism, and zygomaxillary tuberosities. This combination, Habgood says, has a "certain Australianness about it".
Wolpoff, initially skeptical of Thorne's claims, became convinced when reconstructing the Sangiran 17 Homo erectus skull from Indonesia, when he was surprised that the skull's face to vault angle matched that of the Australian modern human Kow Swamp 1 skull in excessive prognathism. Durband (2007) in contrast states that "features cited as showing continuity between Sangiran 17 and the Kow Swamp sample disappeared in the new, more orthognathic reconstruction of that fossil that was recently completed". Baba et al. who newly restored the face of Sangiran 17 concluded: "regional continuity in Australasia is far less evident than Thorne and Wolpoff argued".
China
Xinzhi Wu has argued for a morphological clade in China spanning the Pleistocene, characterized by a combination of 10 features. The sequence is said to start with Lantian and Peking Man, traced to Dali, to Late Pleistocene specimens (e.g. Liujiang) and recent Chinese. Habgood in 1992 criticized Wu's list, pointing out that most of the 10 features in combination appear regularly on fossils outside China. He did though note that three combined: a non-depressed nasal root, non-projecting perpendicularly oriented nasal bones and facial flatness are unique to the Chinese region in the fossil record and may be evidence for limited regional continuity. However, according to Chris Stringer, Habgood's study suffered from not including enough fossil samples from North Africa, many of which exhibit the small combination he considered to be region-specific to China.
Facial flatness as a morphological clade feature has been rejected by many anthropologists since it is found on many early African Homo erectus fossils, and is therefore considered plesiomorphic, but Wu has responded that the form of facial flatness in the Chinese fossil record appears distinct to other (i.e. primitive) forms. Toetik Koesbardiati in her PhD thesis "On the Relevance of the Regional Continuity Features of the Face in East Asia" also found that a form of facial flatness is unique to China (i.e. only appears there at high frequency, very rarely elsewhere) but cautions that this is the only available evidence for regional continuity: "Only two features appear to show a tendency as suggested by the Multiregional model: flatness at the upper face expressed by an obtuse nasio-frontal angle and flatness at the middle part of the face expressed by an obtuse zygomaxillay angle".
Shovel-shaped incisors are commonly cited as evidence for regional continuity in China. Stringer (1992) however found that shovel-shaped incisors are present on >70% of the early Holocene Wadi Halfa fossil sample from North Africa, and common elsewhere. Frayer, et al. (1993) have criticized Stringer's method of scoring shovel-shaped incisor teeth. They discuss the fact that there are different degrees of "shovelled" e.g. trace (+), semi (++), and marked (+++), but that Stringer misleadingly lumped all these together: "...combining shoveling categories in this manner is biologically meaningless and misleading, as the statistic cannot be validly compared with the very high frequencies for the marked shoveling category reported for East Asians." Palaeoanthropologist Fred H. Smith (2009) also emphasizes that: "It is the pattern of shoveling that identities as an East Asian regional feature, not just the occurrence of shoveling of any sort". Multiregionalists argue that marked (+++) shovel-shaped incisors only appear in China at a high frequency, and have <10% occurrence elsewhere.
Europe
Since the early 1990s, David W. Frayer has described what he regards as a morphological clade in Europe. The sequence starts with the earliest dated Neanderthal specimens (Krapina and Saccopastore skulls) traced through the mid-Late Pleistocene (e.g. La Ferrassie 1) to Vindija Cave, and late Upper Palaeolithic Cro-Magnons or recent Europeans. Although many anthropologists consider Neanderthals and Cro Magnons morphologically distinct, Frayer maintains quite the opposite and points to their similarities, which he argues is evidence for regional continuity:
"Contrary to Brauer's recent pronouncement that there is a large and generally recognized morphological gap between the Neanderthals and the early moderns, the actual evidence provided by the extensive fossil record of late Pleistocene Europe shows considerable continuity between Neanderthals and subsequent Europeans."
Frayer et al. (1993) consider there to be at least four features in combination that are unique to the European fossil record: a horizontal-oval shaped mandibular foramen, anterior mastoid tubercle, suprainiac fossa, and narrowing of the nasal breadth associated with tooth-size reduction. Regarding the latter, Frayer observes a sequence of nasal narrowing in Neanderthals, following through to late Upper Palaeolithic and Holocene (Mesolithic) crania. His claims are disputed by others, but have received support from Wolpoff, who regards late Neanderthal specimens to be "transitional" in nasal form between earlier Neanderthals and later Cro Magnons. Based on other cranial similarities, Wolpoff et al. (2004) argue for a sizable Neanderthal contribution to modern Europeans.
More recent claims regarding continuity in skeletal morphology in Europe focus on fossils with both Neanderthal and modern anatomical traits, to provide evidence of interbreeding rather than replacement. Examples include the Lapedo child found in Portugal and the Oase 1 mandible from Peștera cu Oase, Romania, though the "Lapedo child" is disputed by some.
Genetic evidence
Mitochondrial Eve
A 1987 analysis of mitochondrial DNA from 147 people by Cann et al. from around the world indicated that their mitochondrial lineages all coalesced in a common ancestor from Africa between 140,000 and 290,000 years ago. The analysis suggested that this reflected the worldwide expansion of modern humans as a new species, replacing, rather than mixing with, local archaic humans outside of Africa. Such a recent replacement scenario is not compatible with the Multiregional hypothesis and the mtDNA results led to increased popularity for the alternative single replacement theory. According to Wolpoff and colleagues:
When they were first published, the Mitochondrial Eve results were clearly incongruous with Multiregional evolution, and we wondered how the two could be reconciled.
Multiregionalists have responded to what they see as flaws in the Eve theory, and have offered contrary genetic evidences. Wu and Thorne have questioned the reliability of the molecular clock used to date Eve. Multiregionalists point out that Mitochondrial DNA alone can not rule out interbreeding between early modern and archaic humans, since archaic human mitochondrial strains from such interbreeding could have been lost due to genetic drift or a selective sweep. Wolpoff for example states that Eve is "not the most recent common ancestor of all living people" since "Mitochondrial history is not population history".
Neanderthal mtDNA
Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from Feldhofer and Vindija Cave are substantially different from modern human mtDNA. Multiregionalists however have discussed the fact that the average difference between the Feldhofer sequence and living humans is less than that found between chimpanzee subspecies, and therefore that while Neanderthals were different subspecies, they were still human and part of the same lineage.
Nuclear DNA
Initial analysis of Y chromosome DNA, which like mitochondrial DNA, is inherited from only one parent, was consistent with a recent African replacement model. However, the mitochondrial and Y chromosome data could not be explained by the same modern human expansion out of Africa; the Y chromosome expansion would have involved genetic mixing that retained regionally local mitochondrial lines. In addition, the Y chromosome data indicated a later expansion back into Africa from Asia, demonstrating that gene flow between regions was not unidirectional.
An early analysis of 15 noncoding sites on the X chromosome found additional inconsistencies with the recent African replacement hypothesis. The analysis found a multimodal distribution of coalescence times to the most recent common ancestor for those sites, contrary to the predictions for recent African replacement; in particular, there were more coalescence times near 2 million years ago (mya) than expected, suggesting an ancient population split around the time humans first emerged from Africa as Homo erectus, rather than more recently as suggested by the mitochondrial data. While most of these X chromosome sites showed greater diversity in Africa, consistent with African origins, a few of the sites showed greater diversity in Asia rather than Africa. For four of the 15 gene sites that did show greater diversity in Africa, the sites' varying diversity by region could not be explained by simple expansion from Africa, as would be required by the recent African replacement hypothesis.
Later analyses of X chromosome and autosomal DNA continued to find sites with deep coalescence times inconsistent with a single origin of modern humans, diversity patterns inconsistent with a recent expansion from Africa, or both. For example, analyses of a region of RRM2P4 (ribonucleotide reductase M2 subunit pseudogene 4) showed a coalescence time of about 2 Mya, with a clear root in Asia, while the MAPT locus at 17q21.31 is split into two deep genetic lineages, one of which is common in and largely confined to the present European population, suggesting inheritance from Neanderthals. In the case of the Microcephalin D allele, evidence for rapid recent expansion indicated introgression from an archaic population. However, later analysis, including of the genomes of Neanderthals, did not find the Microcephalin D allele (in the proposed archaic species), nor evidence that it had introgressed from an archaic lineage as previously suggested.
In 2001, a DNA study of more than 12,000 men from 163 East Asian regions showed that all of them carry a mutation that originated in Africa about 35,000 to 89,000 years ago and these "data do not support even a minimal in situ hominid contribution in the origin of anatomically modern humans in East Asia".
In a 2005 review and analysis of the genetic lineages of 25 chromosomal regions, Alan Templeton found evidence of more than 34 occurrences of gene flow between Africa and Eurasia. Of these occurrences, 19 were associated with continuous restricted gene exchange through at least 1.46 million years ago; only 5 were associated with a recent expansion from Africa to Eurasia. Three were associated with the original expansion of Homo erectus out of Africa around 2 million years ago, 7 with an intermediate expansion out of Africa at a date consistent with the expansion of Acheulean tool technology, and a few others with other gene flows such as an expansion out of Eurasia and back into Africa subsequent to the most recent expansion out of Africa. Templeton rejected a hypothesis of complete recent African replacement with greater than 99% certainty (p < 10).
Ancient DNA
Main article: Interbreeding between archaic and modern humansRecent analyses of DNA taken directly from Neanderthal specimens indicates that they or their ancestors contributed to the genome of all humans outside of Africa, indicating there was some degree of interbreeding with Neanderthals before their replacement. It has also been shown that Denisova hominins contributed to the DNA of Melanesians and Australians through interbreeding.
By 2006, extraction of DNA directly from some archaic human samples was becoming possible. The earliest analyses were of Neanderthal DNA, and indicated that the Neanderthal contribution to modern human genetic diversity was no more than 20%, with a most likely value of 0%. By 2010, however, detailed DNA sequencing of the Neanderthal specimens from Europe indicated that the contribution was nonzero, with Neanderthals sharing 1-4% more genetic variants with living non-Africans than with living humans in sub-Saharan Africa. In late 2010, a recently discovered non-Neanderthal archaic human, the Denisova hominin from south-western Siberia, was found to share 4–6% more of its genome with living Melanesian humans than with any other living group, supporting admixture between two regions outside of Africa. In August 2011, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles from the archaic Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes were found to show patterns in the modern human population demonstrating origins from these non-African populations; the ancestry from these archaic alleles at the HLA-A site was more than 50% for modern Europeans, 70% for Asians, and 95% for Papua New Guineans. Proponents of the multiregional hypothesis believe the combination of regional continuity inside and outside of Africa and lateral gene transfer between various regions around the world supports the multiregional hypothesis. However, "Out of Africa" Theory proponents also explain this with the fact that genetic changes occur on a regional basis rather than a continental basis, and populations close to each other are likely to share certain specific regional SNPs while sharing most other genes in common. Migration Matrix theory (A=Mt) indicates that dependent upon the potential contribution of Neanderthal ancestry, we would be able to calculate the percentage of Neanderthal mtDNA contribution to the human species. As we do not know the specific migration matrix, we are unable to input the exact data, which would answer these questions irrefutably.
See also
- Human evolution
- Human origins
- Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
- Mitochondrial Eve
- Phyletic gradualism
- Recent African origin of modern humans
- Y-chromosomal Adam
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Further reading
- Marwick, Ben (1 June 2009) . "Biogeography of Middle Pleistocene hominins in mainland Southeast Asia: A review of current evidence". Quaternary International. 202 (1–2): 51–58. Bibcode:2009QuInt.202...51M. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.01.012. Retrieved 4 April 2014 – via Academia.edu.
External links
- Templeton's lattice diagram showing major gene flows graphically. Via Conrante.com.
- Notes on drift and migration with equations for calculating the effects on allele frequencies of different populations. Via Darwin.EEB.CUonn.edu Archived 31 May 2001 at the Wayback Machine.
- "Human Evolution" (2011). Britannica.com.
- Plural Lineages in the Human mtDNA Genome. Via Rafonda.com.
- Human Timeline (Interactive) (August 2016). Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.
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