Sentences with phrase «modern human origins»

Only when these two lines of evidence are properly coordinated can a coherent story of modern human origins emerge.

At the Natural History Museum in London, for example, Chris Stringer, an expert on modern human origins, continues to lean toward a terrestrial migration route out of Africa.

A decade ago the leading theory of modern human origins held our species arose around 200,000 years ago in eastern Africa and (apart from short forays into Israel around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago) did not begin spreading out of Africa in a major way until around 60,000 years ago.

Lastly, even if the problems with both the data and the analysis are ignored, the trees published by Adcock's team do not support the multiregional model for modern human origins, as has been claimed, since all the modern human sequences are closely related to each other, while Neanderthal sequences form a distinct outgroup.

Many researchers concur that the results disprove the strict Out of Africa replacement model of modern human origins.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

Another contender reinvigorated the analysis of modern human origins, when a skull found in a Moroccan cave pushed back the fossil record of Homo sapiens.

Clip 1: Stringer on the potential implications of the Neandertal genome data for models of modern human origins.

Research interests: Modern human origins, craniodental morphology, hominin environmental and functional variation, geometric morphometrics, early migrations of Homo sapiens

«What surprised me the most about the modern human origins debate when I first started learning about it is how little people really knew about what is going on in Asia,» Bae said.