>Not really. What would now be called the multiregional hypothesis
>originated with Franz Weidenreich in the 1940s (I forget what, if
>anything, he called it). Carleton Coon was a supporter in the 1960s,
>and today it's Milford Wolpoff and Alan Thorne's baby. It's always been
>fairly unpopular, as far as I can tell.
>
>The evidence in favor of it is regional characteristics which supposedly
>can tracked from H. erectus to H. sapiens populations in different parts
>of the world. Most people find this evidence tenuous, so the problems
>solved by the multiregional hypothesis are fairly unproblematic in most
>people's opinion.
>
>There was a Scientific American issue, early 1991 I think, which had
>pro- and con- articles on multiregionalism, for anyone who wants more
>info. I can find the exact date if anyone's interested. "The
>Neandertals", by Trinkaus and Shipman, also discusses it.
Scientific American April 1992, Vol. 266, No. 4 "The Multiregional
Evolution od Humans", by Thorne & Wolpoff, discusses it. In same
issue is Wilson & Cann's "The Recent African Genesis of Humans"
where they claim the "Mitochondrial Eve" theory.
Regards.
Stephen
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