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Recent African Origin (RAO) model) According to the theory, anatomically modern humans evolved solely
in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000
years ago and replacing all earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus. The
hypothesis originated in the 1980s based on a study of present day mitochondrial DNA, and its proponents
have since presented evidence based on physical anthropologyof archaic specimens. The recent single
origin of modern humans in East Africa is currently the near mainstream position held within the
scientific community.
-Multiregionaalne mudel: Advocates of the Multiregional model, primarily Milford Wolpoff and his
associates, have argued that the simultaneous evolution of H. sapiens in different parts of Europe and Asia
would have been possible if there was a degree of gene flow between archaic populations. Similarities of