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Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory
Milford H. Wolpoff,1*John Hawks,2David W. Frayer,3Keith Hunley1
The replacement theory of modern human origins stipulates that
populations outside of Africa were replaced by a new Africanspecies of
modern humans. Here we test the replacement theoryin two peripheral
areas far from Africa by examining the ancestryof early modern
Australians and Central Europeans. Analysis ofpairwise differences was
used to determine if dual ancestry inlocal archaic populations and
earlier modern populations fromthe Levant and/or Africa could be
rejected. The data imply thatboth have a dual ancestry. The diversity
of recent humans cannotresult exclusively from a single Late
Pleistocene dispersal.
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.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of
Anthropology, University of Michigan, 500 South State, Ann Arbor,MI
49109-1382, USA. E-mail: wolpoff{at}umich.edu
An early modern human from the Pestera cu Oase, Romania.
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PNAS
100, 11231-11236
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U-series Dating and Human Evolution.
A. W. G. Pike, A. W. G. Pike, and P. B. Pettitt (2003)
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
52, 607-630
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A Reanalysis of the Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Sequences Recovered from Neandertal Bones.
G. Gutierrez, D. Sanchez, and A. Marin (2002)
Mol. Biol. Evol.
19, 1359-1366
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Hypertension Genetics, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, and the Common Disease:Common Variant Hypothesis.
