Can someone help me with this Anthropology question?

Question

A friend borrowed my book so I can't read about it. What is the Complete Replacement Model and the Regional Continuity Model of modern human origins? I need to find out which model I agree with most but I have no idea what these are. Any help will do. Thanks.

Answer 1

Get the book back.

If that's impossible, try typing those phrases into your favorite search engine.

If that doesn't work, look at your class notes.

sorry, I'd only be guessing as to what those mean. But if you can't find anything anywhere, you'll have to speculate, based on what those two phrases SAY.

"Complete Replacement" and "Regional Continuity"

Answer 2

Here you go:

Anthropologists have been divided as to whether Homo sapiens evolved as one interconnected species from H. erectus (called the Multiregional Model, or the Regional Continuity Model), or evolved only in East Africa, and then migrated out of Africa and replaced H. erectus populations throughout the Old World (called the Out of Africa Model or the Complete Replacement Model).

(excerpted from wikipedia, your free encyclopedia)

------- To recapitulate -------

Regional Continuity Model of Human Evolution

==Multiregional Model

==Homo sapiens emerged, in multiple parallels, out of the widely distrubuted regional varieties of Homo erectus in Europe, Asia, and Africa and evolved along a parallel path merging into one  Homo sapiens.

Complete Replacement Model of Human Evolution

==Out of Africa Model

==Homo sapiens emerged only once in Africa from the local Homo erectus subspecies of the Olduvai Gorge, migrated out of Africa, spread to the two Old World continents, and eventually replaced all the other local Homo erectus groups.

------- That's all there is to it. For more details, consult the relevant links listed below -------

Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolu...

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Reference: (there's about 1,000 web pages)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=...