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Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory

Published:2001-01-12 Issue:5502 Volume:291 Page:293-297
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Wolpoff Milford H.¹,Hawks John²,Frayer David W.³,Hunley Keith¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1382, USA.

2. Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112–0060, USA.

3. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045–7556, USA.

Abstract

The replacement theory of modern human origins stipulates that populations outside of Africa were replaced by a new African species of modern humans. Here we test the replacement theory in two peripheral areas far from Africa by examining the ancestry of early modern Australians and Central Europeans. Analysis of pairwise differences was used to determine if dual ancestry in local archaic populations and earlier modern populations from the Levant and/or Africa could be rejected. The data imply that both have a dual ancestry. The diversity of recent humans cannot result exclusively from a single Late Pleistocene dispersal.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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