Fossil Evidence
Proponents of the multiregional hypothesis see regional continuity of certain morphological traits from archaic humans to modern humans, demonstrating regional genetic continuity, even as changes in other traits occur in parallel over time across all regions, demonstrating lateral genetic exchange. For example, in 2001 Wolpoff and colleagues published an analysis of character traits of the skulls of early modern human fossils in Australia and central Europe. They concluded that the diversity of these recent humans could not "result exclusively from a single late Pleistocene dispersal", and implied dual ancestry from Javan Homo erectus for Australia and from Neanderthals for Central Europe.
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