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C B Stringer1

  • 1Human Origins Group, Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|August 29, 1992
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This study compares archaic human groups to modern Homo sapiens, finding evidence favors an African origin for modern humans. Cranial shape analysis suggests recent development of regional human diversity.

Area of Science:

  • Paleoanthropology
  • Human Evolution
  • Bioarchaeology

Background:

  • The multiregional and recent African origin models propose different scenarios for human evolution and archaic-modern population relationships.
  • These models have distinct predictions regarding the origins of regional human variation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare late archaic human groups from diverse regions with fossil and recent Homo sapiens cranial samples.
  • To test the predictions of the multiregional and recent African origin models regarding archaic-modern population connections.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Penrose shape comparisons on cranial samples from four late archaic groups (Europe, SW Asia, Africa, East Asia) and various Homo sapiens specimens.
  • Analyzed patterns of regionality in cranial morphology.

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Main Results:

  • Cranial shape analyses favored a closer relationship between archaic African populations and modern humans over an East Asian connection.
  • European and Southwest Asian Neanderthal groups appeared more distant from modern humans.
  • Shape analyses and regionality examinations indicated that present-day human regionality originated recently, not anciently.

Conclusions:

  • The findings lend stronger support to a recent African origin model for modern humans.
  • Evidence suggests recent development of regional human diversity rather than ancient, parallel regional evolution.
  • The Skhul-Qafzeh sample serves as a key transitional form between archaic and modern human cranial morphology.