The hypothesis necessarily rejects the assumption of an infertility barrier between ancient Eurasian and African populations of Homo. Crossing into Southeast Asia, haplogroup N (mostly in the form of derivatives of its R subclade) reappears as the predominant lineage. These waves of migration steadily occurred over the world and eventually became the human civilization. [44] According to co-author Ilan Gronau, "This actually complements archaeological evidence of the presence of early modern humans out of Africa around and before 100,000 years ago by providing the first genetic evidence of such populations. In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin model (RAO), is the dominant[1][2][3] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens). It did begin the early 90âs. These early waves appear to have mostly died out or retreated by 80,000 years ago. For many historical reasons, and perhaps some psychological ones, race impacts our understanding of human variation in a circular way: Folk (or social) understandings of variation (race) influence science, and conversely, science has been used to validate social meanings of race (Wolpoff and Caspari 1997). The Concept of Race. [93] With the advent of archaeogenetics in the 1990s, the dating of mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal haplogroups became possible with some confidence. P. Mellars and C. B. Stringer, 62–108. Moreover, the fact that more variation occurred in African groups suggested Africa as the source. However, an alternate theory proposes that hominins migrated out of Africa before Homo ergaster evolved, possibly about 2 million years ago, prior to the earliest dates of Homo erectus in Asia. The out of Africa theory expresses that Homo erectus developed in Africa nearly two million-years-ago and as the temperatures changed, they moved throughout the world and developed differently. According to 2013 DNA tests, Tianyuan man is related "to many present-day Asians and Native Americans". Thus, the question of “the origin of races” focused on whether human races had a recent or an ancient common ancestor. However, in arguing for African ancestry, neither Protsch nor Bräuer contended that early humans of modern form in Africa implied unique African origins. Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. 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[51] Wells (2003) argued for the route along the southern coastline of Asia, across about 250 kilometres (155 mi)[dubious – discuss], reaching Australia by around 50,000 years ago. [79][30] _____, S. M. Garn, and J. [46] This haplogroup is found in high proportions among the San of Southern Africa and the Sandawe of East Africa. This model of replacement without mixture in the process of recent human origin was accepted by some paleoanthropologists (Stringer and Andrews 1988) and remains an influential model in the early 2000s. These humans seem to have either become extinct or retreated back to Africa 70,000 to 80,000 years ago, possibly replaced by southbound Neanderthals escaping the colder regions of ice-age Europe. [90] Stringer (2014) distinguishes the original or "classic" Multiregional model as having existed from 1984 (its formulation) until 2003, to a "weak" post-2003 variant that has "shifted close to that of the Assimilation Model". The origin of modern humans in Afric⦠." Such population bottlenecks often accompany speciations, and hence the mtDNA data were thought to reflect the time and place of the birth of the modern human species. The study distinguishes non-African sweeps (notably KITLG variants associated with skin color), West-Eurasian sweeps (SLC24A5) and East-Asian sweeps (MC1R, relevant to skin color). [27] Based on an analysis of 55 human mitochondrial genomes (mtDNAs) of hunter-gatherers, Posth et al. [citation needed] M is predominant in East Asia, but amongst Indigenous Australians, N is the more common lineage. It…, Biological evolution is the change in the allele frequency of a gene in a population over time. Alternatively, it is possible that light and dark pigmentation alleles segregated in a single African source population ( 13 , 48 ) and that alleles associated with dark pigmentation were maintained outside of Africa only in the South Asian and Australo-Melanesian populations due to selection. Stoneking, M., and R. L. Cann. If there had been several migrations, one would expect descendants of more than one lineage to be found. The “Out of Africa” hypothesis is an evolutionary theory of modern human origin that posits that modern humans arose in the late Pleistocene, about 100,000–200,000 years ago, in Africa. Fossil and genetic data support the hypothesis that there was gene-flow both between modern and archaic populations, and between geographic groups of modern humans after their emergence. Dobzhansky, T. 1963. Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas. [83] These views were opposed by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel, who was a proponent of the Out of Asia theory. Isolated proponents of polygenism held forth in the mid-20th century, such as Carleton Coon, who thought as late as 1962 that H. sapiens arose five times from H. erectus in five places. “‘In Ways Unacademical’: The Reception of Carleton S. Coon’s The Origin of Races.” Journal of the History of Biology 34: 247–285. 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