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Researchers from the United States and Germany have argued that the common ancestor of Neandertal and modern humans existed about _________ years ago.

Y chromosome evidence traces descent only from __________.

Which of the following is not a theory about what happened to the Neandertals?

The only source of change for mitochondrial DNA is random mutation, which is thought to occur at the rate of __________.

The average size of the brain of Homo sapiens is _________ cc.

Many of the excavated home sites from the Middle Paleolithic in Europe and the Near East are located in __________.

To explain why human evolution would proceed gradually and in the same direction in various parts of the Old World, multiregional theorists point to cultural improvements in ______________.

Toward the end of the Acheulian period a technique was developed, called the __________ method, which enabled the toolmaker to produce flake tools of a predetermined size.

In __________, researchers completed the first draft of the Neandertal genome, from which they concluded that the Neandertal and modern human genomes share 99.5-99.9%, forcing a reconsideration of the relationship of modern humans and Neandertals.

__________ and her colleagues presented evidence that the modern ancestor of all living people – from the United States, New Guinea, Africa, to East Asia – lived about 200,000 years ago.