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...necessarily, says Australia's Thorne, a leading multiregionalist, who offers another interpretation. Whenever H. erectus left Africa, the result would have been the same: populations did not evolve in isolation but in concert, trading genetic material by interbreeding with neighboring groups. "Today," says Thorne, "human genes flow between Johannesburg and Beijing and between Paris and Melbourne. Apart from interruptions from ice ages, they have probably been doing this through the entire span of Homo sapiens' evolution...
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