Charles Darwin suggested that Africa is the birthplace of the earliest hominin species because Group of answer choices he found hominin fossils in South Africa while traveling on the Beagle. there was no known fossil record of hominins in Asia at the time. of the anatomical similarity of humans and African apes. genetic comparisons linked African primates and living humans.
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The out-of-Africa hypothesis states that (a) all new species of hominins arose in Africa and then migrated to the rest of the world. (b) many new species of hominins arose outside of Africa and then migrated back to Africa later. (c) all hominin speciation events occurred outside of Africa. (d) all speciation events occurred in Africa, but only Homo sapiens distributed itself across the globe.
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