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| anatomically modern humans |
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| The modern form of the human species, which dates back 200,000 years. |
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| The species name given to a very small hominin that lived in Indonesia in recent times, and thought to be a dwarf species of Homo erectus. |
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| A general term used to collectively refer to the stone tool technologies of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. |
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| A general term used to collectively refer to the stone tool technologies of Homo habilis/Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus. |
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| A general term used to refer collectively to the stone tool technologies of H. heidelbergensis and Neandertals. |
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| A stone tool characteristic of the Upper Paleolithic, defined as being at least twice as long as it is wide. |
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| A stone tool with a sharp edge that is used to cut and engrave bone. |
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| multiregional evolution model |
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| The hypothesis that modern humans evolved throughout the Old World as a single species after the first dispersion of Homo erectus out of Africa. |
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| most recent common ancestor (MRCA) |
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| The most recent individual from which a set of organisms are descended. MCRAs are estimated from genetic data and are different for different loci. |
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| African replacement model |
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| The hypothesis that modern humans evolved as a new species in Africa 200,000 years ago and then spread throughout the Old World, replacing preexisting human populations. |
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| The hypothesis that modern human anatomy arose first in Africa as a change within a species and then spread through gene flow to populations outside of Africa. The gene pool of the non-African populations was thus assimilated into an expanding population of modern humans out of Africa. |
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| The appearance of similar traits within a geographic region that remain over a long period of time. |
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