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Postby Tyran » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:15 am

Can someone please give me a brief understandin of the hypotheses related to evolution??? (Eve, out of africa etc...) I tryed the tutorial and couldn't find anything. I've got final exams in a few weeks and just cant understand these!!!
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Postby MrMistery » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:46 pm

Evolution of what? Evolution in general? Or evolution of a specific organism? You want us to explain how it works or something else? Please make it more clear
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Postby Tyran » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:35 am

Sorry. I should have been more specific. I need to know about the Human Evolution theories (Out of Africa, Multi Regional ...) and what evidance there is for each if these.
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Postby mith » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:58 am

well, the evidence that supports it is where the fossils of increasing age are located. There is also some project,I forgot the name, that tested everyone in the world for their y chromosome differences. Evidently a tribe in africa has the least mutations.
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Postby MrMistery » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:33 pm

Dave is right. The oldest "human", that was actually an Australopitecus aferensis(named Lucy by archeologists) was found in Africa, the valley of the Olduway river
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Postby Tyran » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:29 am

I have pretty good idea of the evidence...
But i need to know what the theories are? e.g. What is the multi-regional theory? What is the Eve Hypothesis?
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Postby zami'87. » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:37 pm

Yes,Y and mitochondrial DNA can be used in determination of origin and relationships.
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