Fossil and Genetic Evidence Strongly Supports the Idea That Modern

question 19

Multiple Choice

Fossil and genetic evidence strongly supports the idea that modern humans

• A) independently arose from three different ancestral Homo species in Africa and Eurasia.
• B) all derive from a single African lineage that spread from there into other parts of the world starting about 50,000 years ago.
• C) derive from an African lineage but also have genes derived from mixing with several Eurasian descendants of Homo erectus.
• D) derive from Neanderthals that independently evolved the features of modern humans in Europe and Africa.

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