Not Out of Java

摘要

Most scientists think modern humans evolved only in Africa. But the theory of "multiregional-ism" still has its holdouts who think Homo sapiens evolved all over the Old World.rnNow the biggest study yet of fossil skulls from Australia, Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East has delivered another blow to that theory. Paleoanthropologist Michael Westaway of the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia, and primatologist Colin Groves ofrnthe Australian National University in Canberra compared 26 15,000-to 40,000-year-old skulls from the Willandra Lakes of New South Wales, Australia, with skulls of 19 early modern humans, dated at up torn195,000 years old, and five H.