Australia: The Land Where Time Began
The 2 main theories of the evolution of modern humans are the Out of Africa Hypothesis (The Noah's Ark model) and the Regional Continuity Hypothesis (the candelabra model). Both agree that the migrants left from the Africa, they differ on when and whether the previous populations of Eurasia were replaced or interbreeding took place with existing populations of H. erectus
The Out of Africa Hypothesis
- Turkana newcomer -> Sangiran -> Ngandong
- -> Zhaoukoudian
- -> Petralona -> Dali & Neandertthal
- -> Kabwe -> Omo/Kibush -> Mungo -> Australoid
- -> Liujiang -> Mongoloid
- -> Cro-Magnon -> Caucasoid
- -> Iwo Eleru -> Negroid
The Regional Continuity Hypothesis
- Turkana newcomer -> Sangiran -> Ngandong -> Mungo -> Australoid
- -> Zhaoukoudian -> Dali -> Liujiang -> Mongoloid
- -> Petralona -> Neanderthal -> Cro-Magnon -> Caucasoid
- -> Kabwe - Omo/Kibish -> Iwo Eleru -> Negroid
These suggested tables are based on diagrams in Guran Burenhult, 2003
The basis of the Out of Africa theory is mtDNA, the The Regional Continuity theory is based on skeletal material.
- Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, J. B. Publishing
- Phillip J. Habgood & Natilie R. Franklin, The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 55, 2008
- Goran Burenhult (general editor), Peoples of the Past, the Illusgtrated History of Human Kind, Vol 1, Fog City Press, 2003
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