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The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence.

Publication Details

New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1984 CE.

An historical and analytical review of the literature up to 1984, with detailed bibliographies, by several outstanding authorities, edited by Smith and Spencer. Includes, pp. 411-483, Milford H. Wolpott, Wu Xin Zhi, and Alan G. Thomas, "Modern Homo sapiens Origins: A General Theory of Hominid Evolution Involving the Fossil Evidence from East Asia." This proposed the multiregional hypothesis of the origin of modern humans, a view in opposition to the prevailing recent African origin of modern humans hypothesis, or "Out of Africa" theory (OOA).  

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Entry Number#7272
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External URLthe-origins-of-modern-humans-a-world-survey-of-the-fossil-evidence

Geographic Context

Publication place: New York