What Characterizes the Recently Overturned 'Multiple Origins' Model of Human

question 40

Multiple Choice

What characterizes the recently overturned 'multiple origins' model of human evolution?

• A) Numerous human subpopulations diverged and converged continually and variously over time, periodically passing genes back and forth
• B) Homo sapiens came into being in a number of regions, separately, and evolved in a parallel way, without coming into contact with each other.
• C) Humans who left Africa early were killed off by subsequent waves of more highly-evolved emigrants
• D) Subpopulations separated long ago and evolved into the five distinct races we now know today
• E) Humans who left Africa early were assimilated by subsequent waves of more highly-evolved emigrants

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