anthro research

Edward Voskoboynik Anthropology—111 Wolpoff’s Multiregional Model In a March 26, 1999 issue of Science G. A. Clark contributed an article entitled Highly Visible, Curiously Intangible, subtitled modern human origins research. This article tackles the issues surrounding the two competing models of human evolution: the continuity model and the replacement model. Clark borrowed the title from the geneticist Henry Harpending’s phrase—“a highly visible, yet intangible field,” which Harpeding used to describe the controversial endeavor to …

…the Skhul/Quafzeh sample. Dali and Mapa showed greater similarity to contemporary Africans and the Skhul/Qafzeh sample than to modern Asians, a result that is contrary to the expectations of regional continuity” (Waddle, 2001, p.157). In conclusion, it appears that simple replacement and continuity models are falling apart. With more precise research techniques and more fossil evidence, it could be possible that the answer to our origin lies some where between the two extreme models.