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Describe the ‘Multiregional Continuity Model’.

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Homo erectus left Africa and dispersed into other areas of the Old World and regional populations slowly evolved into modern humans.

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Describe the ‘Out of Africa Model’.

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Modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa and migrated to elsewhere replacing all populations which had descended from Homo erectus.