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| | August 17, 1997 |
 | | In 1864, Alfred Russel Wallace, co-author of the theory of evolution, proposed to an audience at the Anthropological Society of London that our apelike ancestors spread throughout the world and became adapted to their various local conditions. |
 | | Christopher Stringer, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, with the help of Robin McKie, a science writer, argues for a theory that has come to be called ''out of Africa''; and he opposes it to the contemporary ''multiregionalist'' view, a descendant of the ideas of Wallace, Haeckel and Coon. |
 | | Stringer marshals considerable paleontological, anthropological and genetic evidence for his position -- for instance, the genetic differences within each race are much larger than the average differences among the races, suggesting very close biological relationship. |
| www.unl.edu /rhames/courses/stringrev.htm (1223 words) |
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