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The general consensus in the evolution of humankind is that homo-erectus species were originally from the land of Africa
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Question 4 The general consensus in the evolution of humankind is that homo-erectus species were originally from the land of Africa. It was from there that they grew and reproduced and then slowly migrated out of Africa, to other parts of the world like Asia and Europe. There they formed their local populations of homo-erectus and lived. However, when it comes to the evolution of homo- sapiens or modern humans from the homo-erectus species of the world at that time, it is very much debated among paleoanthropologists how it really happened. Two hypothesis or theories of modern human evolution models came out of the various groups of debate and argument. The first is called the multi-regional or regional continuity model. This model holds that the separate and local populations of homo-erectus in different regions all evolved into modern humans at around the same time thus giving rise to the variations of humans in...
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