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Predictions: Out of Africa


The Out of Africa Model predicts:

  • anatomically modern humans should appear in Africa earlier than elsewhere;
  • fossils with transitional anatomy between archaic and modern will only be found in Africa;
  • there will be no continuity of anatomical features from archaic to moderns anywhere outside of Africa (racial differences will have occurred in the last 100,000 years).

The Multiregional model predicts:

  • anatomically modern humans from similar periods will be found throughout the Old World;
  • fossils with transitional anatomy between archaic and modern will be found all over the Old World;
  • in each region of the Old World there will be anatomical continuity from archaic to modern populations (racial differentiation occurring early).