Harking back to Weidenreich 13 and his belief that each of today’s human “races” has roots deep in time (“Java Man” having given rise to modern aboriginal Australians, for example, and “Peking Man” to modern Chinese), multiregional continuity in its most recent incarnation claims that all evolutionary developments in the hominid line subsequent to Homo habilis (whatever that is) have taken place within the single species Homo sapiens.p.4
Tattersall I. (2000). Paleoanthropology : the last half-century. Evolutionary Anthropology 9(1): 2-16.
The emboldened text is a weasley way to set up a straw-man. Nobody thinks that, as it implies that they evolved seperately.
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