Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Migration and Contact Zones in Modern Human Origins: Baboon Models for Hybridization and Species Recognition
AU  - Simmons T
Y1  - 1999
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 101
EP  - 109
KW  - Origin of modern humans
KW  - Polytypic species
KW  - Isolation
KW  - Contact zones
KW  - Hybridization
N2  - 
N2  - This paper uses data on species identification in modern baboon populations to critically examine the two conflicting models for the origins of modern humans: the recent African origins and the multiregional evolution ones. Informed by data on baboons, the paper examines the morphology of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominid remains from the circum-Mediterranean zone which suggest that this region served as an evolutionary contact zone which witnesses numerous repeated episodes of multi-directional migrations and gene flow. These past processes do not permit us to classify the hominid remains into discrete species. 
ER  -