Modern Human Origin and Dispersal – Review of J. F. Hoffecker. Modern Humans – Their African Origin and Global Dispersal. 2018. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 9780231160766; 506 pages, with 59 illustrations, 23 tables, 23 boxes. (Imaged used with permission by Columbia University Press.)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1121-1126
Author(s):  
Susan G. Keates
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Modern Human Origin

scholarly journals A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt

Antiquity ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (277) ◽  
pp. 475-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Vermeersch ◽  
E. Paulissen ◽  
P. Van Peer ◽  
S. Stokes ◽  
C. Charlier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Origin Of Modern Humans ◽  
Clear Relation ◽  
Aeolian Sands

Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age between 49,800 and 80,400 years ago, with a mean age of 55,000.

scholarly journals A View of Modern Human Origins from Y Chromosome Microsatellite Variation

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 558-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Seielstad ◽  
Endashaw Bekele ◽  
Muntaser Ibrahim ◽  
Amadou Touré ◽  
Mamadou Traoré
Keyword(s):  
Y Chromosome ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Effective Population ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Microsatellite Variation ◽  
Modern Human Origins ◽  
African Populations

The idea that all modern humans share a recent (within the last 150,000 years) African origin has been proposed and supported on the basis of three observations. Most genetic loci examined to date have (1) shown greater diversity in African populations than in others, (2) placed the first branch between African and all non-African populations in phylogenetic trees, and (3) indicated recent dates for either the molecular coalescence (with the exception of some autosomal and X-chromosomal loci) or for the time of separation between African and non-African populations. We analyze variation at 10 Y chromosome microsatellite loci that were typed in 506 males representing 49 populations and every inhabited continent and find significantly greater Y chromosome diversity in Africa than elsewhere, find the first branch in phylogenetic trees of the continental populations to fall between African and all non-African populations, and date this branching with the (δμ)2 distance measure to 5800–17,400 or 12,800–36,800 years BP depending on the mutation rate used. The magnitude of the excess Y chromosome diversity in African populations appears to result from a greater antiquity of African populations rather than a greater long-term effective population size. These observations are most consistent with a recent African origin for all modern humans.

Natives or immigrants: modern human origin in east asia

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Jin ◽  
Bing Su
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Modern Human Origin

The Morphological and Behavioural Origins of Modern Humans

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Genetic Evidence ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Speciation Event ◽  
Out Of Africa

This chapter provides an update on the speciation of modern Homo sapiens and the Out of Africa hypothesis. The majority of the fossil and genetic evidence favours an African origin for modern humans during the later part of the Middle Pleistocene (prior to 130,000 years ago), and one or more range expansions out of Africa after that date. However, a number of uncertainties remain. If there was a speciation event at the appearance of modern humans, what was its nature? Furthermore, did the evolution of modern human behaviour occur gradually or punctuationally? The discussion examines the difficulties faced in defining what is meant by ‘modern’ humans, and in reconstructing the morphological and behavioural origins of our species.

scholarly journals Modern human origins: progress and prospects

2002 ◽  
Vol 357 (1420) ◽  
pp. 563-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Modern Human Origins ◽  
Fossil Evidence ◽  
Behavioural Characteristics ◽  
Origin Of Modern Humans

The question of the mode of origin of modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) has dominated palaeoanthropological debate over the last decade. This review discusses the main models proposed to explain modern human origins, and examines relevant fossil evidence from Eurasia, Africa and Australasia. Archaeological and genetic data are also discussed, as well as problems with the concept of ‘modernity’ itself. It is concluded that a recent African origin can be supported for H. sapiens , morphologically, behaviourally and genetically, but that more evidence will be needed, both from Africa and elsewhere, before an absolute African origin for our species and its behavioural characteristics can be established and explained.

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