ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Homo Erectus, Upper Paleolithic, Aurignacian
8 Oct 2020
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Disappearance of mousterian industry suggests demise of neanderthals. Mousterian industry replaced by aurignacian industry (with no sign of transition) Groups lived in the same region for 50,000 years. Possible interbreeding between neanderthals and modern h. sapiens. Not enough time for biological evolution of neanderthals into modern h. sapiens. What is a modern human: the term modern human refers to all members of the subspecies homo sapiens sapiens. This includes all living humans: modern human traits include: Origins and spread of modern humans: multi-regional model. Evolution from h. erectus in several places: recent out-of-africa model. H. sapiens sapiens developed in africa 200-100 kya, radiated to other continents. After homo erectus migration out of africa different populations became reproductively isolated. Homo sapiens arose in one place, probably africa. Homo sapiens ultimately migrated out of africa and replaced all other human populations, without interbreeding. Modern human variation is a relatively recent phenomenon.
