single-species hypothesis

anthropology

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In Homo sapiens: Bodily structure
…its philosophy from the “single-species hypothesis” popular in the 1960s. This hypothesis held that two kinds of culture-bearing hominins could not, on principle, exist at any one time and that, as a result, all hominin fossils had necessarily to be accommodated within a single evolving lineage. By the mid-1970s,…
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