What Characterizes the 'Multiregional Metapopulation Model' of Human Evolution That

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Multiple Choice

What characterizes the 'multiregional metapopulation model' of human evolution that now dominates scientific thinking about our evolutionary past?

• A) Human subpopulations diverged and interbred with other subpopulations, periodically passing genes back and forth so that no group diverged enough for speciation (macroevolution) to occur
• B) Homo sapiens came into being in a number of regions, separately, and evolved in a parallel way.
• C) Humans who left Africa early were killed off by subsequent waves of more highly-evolved migrants
• D) Subpopulations separated long ago and evolved into the five distinct races we now know today
• E) Human beings can live anywhere.

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