{"id":42373,"date":"2011-07-06T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:22:26","slug":"is-chris-stringer-a-multi-regionalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/06\/is-chris-stringer-a-multi-regionalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chris Stringer a multi-regionalist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interesting<\/a> piece in The Guardian<\/a> on possible proto-gorilla\/proto-human hybridization, the journalist lobs this grenade:<\/p>\n

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But now that the once popular “single-origin model” of the evolution of Homo sapiens has been disproved, and the previously controversial “multiregional hypothesis” has been proven by DNA evidence,<\/b> perhaps we need a rethink. According to the multiregional hypothesis all modern people, including modern Africans, are the descendents of breeding and hybridising between separate ancestral groups, all at various stages of evolutionary development.<\/p>\n

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Evolutionary lice research has helped palaeoanthropologists, including Stringer, to embrace the multi-regional hypothesis.<\/b> “I’m sure there is plenty more to come from the lice research,” he told me. We know that it took 4m years, 5-9m years ago, for our ancestors to completely split from archaic chimps. During that time hybrids would have been born that mated both with our ancestors and ancestral chimps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe issue here is semantics. I think regular readers of this weblog will know to be more cautious than to contend that the “single-origin model” of our species has been “disproved,” while its inverse has been “proven.” Those are strong words in science. Additionally, I seriously doubt that Chris Stringer would identify as a multi-regionalist. Some wires …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interesting piece in The Guardian on possible proto-gorilla\/proto-human hybridization, the journalist lobs this grenade:
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