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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
morphological features between archaic European and Chinese populations and modern H. sapiens from
the same regions, Wolpoff argues, support a regional continuity only possible within the Multiregional
model