… the origin of Homo sapiens (used here in the restricted sense of Stringer & Andrews 1988a,
to represent living and fossil … The fossil record ofEurope is critical to our understanding ofthe …

… evidence placing our species … evidence of the fossil record. On the other hand, the LCA
divergence had to occur somewhere in Africa and we should find in the fossil record: i) evidence …

… Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Modern Humans’: ‘We examine two opposing models [MRE
and RAO] proposed to explain the origin of Homo sapiens … mode of Homo sapiens evolution…

… This paper aims to review the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Africa and Southwest Asia
… African origin for the “sapiens lineage” as a plausible hypothesis. While the fossil record from …

… Our results highlight both the scarcity of our knowledge of the human fossil record in southeast
Europe and the importance of this region in understanding Pleistocene human evolution …

… sapiens groups that were deciphered from the fossil record and presented here, but all of …
sapiens, not Neanderthal, fossils. Is this because of a sparser genetic record from late …

… On the other hand, if pan-Africanism better describes our evolutionary history, we should
observe in the fossil record highly derived forms, with features of cranial globularity (such as …

… DNA has also predicted both where and when the earliest members of our own species,
Homo sapiens, would have evolved: back home in Africa, ~300,000 years ago. Sure enough, …

… Only eight sites in Africa have yielded possible early anatomically modern Homo sapiens
fossils from the late Middle Pleistocene (approximately 350–130 thousand years ago (ka)) 11 . …

… The major problem conceming this part of the world is the temporal and morphological
gap in the fossil record between the iatest archaic Homo sapiens specimens and the earliest …