Which of the Following Evidence Does NOT Support the Out-Of-Africa

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of the following evidence does NOT support the out-of-Africa hypothesis?

• A) Differences among modern human populations are due to geographic separation for 2 million years.
• B) the replacement of other hominin species by Homo sapiens expanding beyond Africa approximately 60,000 years ago
• C) The coalescence time for human mitochondrial DNA is between 120,000 and 230,000 years ago, while the coalescence time for non-African mtDNA is only about 38,500 years ago.
• D) the existence of greater mitochondrial diversity in Africa than in the rest of the world combined

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