The Multiregional Continuity Model of human evolution contends that after Homo erectus left Africa and dispersed into other portions of the Old World, regional populations slowly evolved into modern humans. This theory contrasts with the Out of Africa Model, which asserts that modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa, migrated into Eurasia and replaced all populations which had descended from Homo erectus.
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- Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution An overview of human evolution, summarizing current thinking and describing the fossil evidence for Australopithecus and Homo.
- Mitochondrial DNA Clarifies Human Evolution Technical article describing recent DNA studies and evolution hypotheses, by Max Ingman.
- Multiregional Evolution Summary of claims from the polygenic side of the modern human origins debate, by James Q. Jacobs.
- Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa Analysis in support of the Out of Africa model, by Dr. Donald Johanson.
- Nature: Humans Did Come Out of Africa, Says DNA Evidence that we are all descended from a single ancestral group that lived in Africa.
- PINTUBI-1: A Modern Australoid Points to the Past Article by Jim Vanhollebeke describing an Australian hominid skull, as evidence for the multiregional theory.
- Time: Rewriting Prehistory A team of researchers concludes that Chinese, like everyone else, came out of Africa.