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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dead: [QB] The Assimilation Model (AM) has always been a Multiregional Evolution (MRE) variant. It has been since it was proposed in 1989. Fred Smith received his PhD under Wolpoff, and his model in the 90s was never considered an "intermediate" compromise between MRE and OOA, but a 'weak', or watered down version of MRE. Smith and Wolpoff both also wrote some of their papers together against OOA. As Stringer came to note this year: Wolpoff has now shifted his ideas "close to that of the Assimilation Model". In fact I would argue MRE today and AM are virtually identical. What has been falsified is the hardcore or 'classic' MRE of the 80s/90s by Wolpoff et al, not the Assimilation or revised 'weak' MRE. 'Weak' MRE is supported well by the fossil record, an excellent overview can be found in Habgood (2003). [IMG]http://s24.postimg.org/5bb8xn9k5/Habgood.png[/IMG] Regionally continuous distinctive "Australoid" features x 5 = 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 (1) flatness of the frontal bone [viewed in the sagital plane] (2) posterier placement of minimum frontal breadth (6) Excessive facial prognathism (7) Prominent zygomacillary (malar) tuberosity (8) Eversion of the lower border of the zygomatic Like I said, there's evidence for 'weak' MRE: a combination of 4-5 regionally continuous craniometric traits in Southeast Asia, Europe and East Asia that was never terminated/disappeared throughout the Pleistocene. Of this list i would only remove (6) because the Sangiran 17 crania was more recently reconstructed as almost orthognathic. It was basically a faulty reconstruction from the 80s showing it as having marked facial prognathism. Baba, H.; Aziz, F.; Narasaki, S. (2000). "Restoration of the face of Javanese Homo erectus Sangiran 17 and re-evaluation of regional continuity in Australasia". Acta Anthropologica Sinica 19: 34–40. [QUOTE]I also don't understand why you keep saying OOA is a hoax when you say you subscribe to assimilation. Do you have any idea how crazy that sounds?[/QUOTE]Not at all, because Assimilation denies "AMH" had an exclusive African origin. Instead it argues most (but not all) "modernity" traits originated there, which I have no problem with given its much larger population size throughout the Pleistocene. And my point is that Europeans, South-East Asians etc., were regionally distinctive hundreds of thousands of years before Africans. The cranial discontinuity you are trying to show for Europeans are not the regional traits that uniquely characterised the perhiperal regions (incl. Europe) on Earth throughout the Pleistocene, where they are still found in high frequency there today. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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