ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Neanderthal, Nuclear Dna, Native Americans In The United States
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Anatomically modern homo sapiens: cro-magnon, 35,000 ya, western europe, features, high broad forehead, chin, narrow nose, globular vault, brow ridges, less robust post-cranial, first find but not the earliest, earliest find: omo, ethopia, 195 kya. Origin of modern h. sapiens: origin of modern humans in africa, with later replacement of all of other homo species (including neandertals), based on, morphological studies, genetic studies, mtdna, y chromosomes, recent genetic profiling, nuclear dna. Multiregional hypothesis (wolpoff: several populations in africa, asia & europe evolving together from 100,000-40,000 ya, based on, tool assemblages, fossil evidence. Dispersals from african homeland: fossil record, 195,000 ya, africa, 120-80,000 ya, middle east (israel, 1st major dispersal out of africa, 70,000 ya, probably followed a southern route all the way to the far east and. Australia: 2nd major dispersal, 50,000-40,000 ya, h. sapiens north to eurasia then west to europe proper east to siberia, americas followed shortly after colonization of siberia.
