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Intermingling of Races in Early Civilizations

mo sapiens and a precursor to (modern) Cro-Magnon man.5 Indeed, Day points out a number of fossil remains discovered at various points in Europe and grouped under the name Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and that Neanderthal specimens represent "a mixture of advanced and less advanced features,"6 which points toward a mixture of Homo sapiens and Homo erectus features. To put it another way, the issues of species, genus, and subspecies have not been settled, even among the experts.

Classification of Homo erectus as an ancestor of Homo sapiens, where examples are found in many parts of the world, implies the theory of concurrent evolutionary development, reflecting regional and perhaps racial characteristics typical of the various parts of the world. In this regard, Day explains mosaic evolution as the theory that various populations evolved not only in various locations but also at various rates.7 Thus, for example, some characteristics of extinct species just preceding extant species, could be scientifically dated at the same period as specimens from later species. That is to say, selected characteristics of Homo erectus could be identified in specimens of Homo sapiens. Identification of Neanderthal characteristics, both in specimens dated all across the great span of years in the Pleistocene epoch and among some modern South Pacific peoples consistent with this theory. Based on the fossil record available in 1981, Day concludes that early Homo sapiens, dated from 250,000 to 100,000 years ago, or the so-called late/upper middle Pleistocene Epoch, was rapidly evolving and therefore particularly "subject to this mosaic process."8 This is supported by McHenry,9 who says that morphological adaptations to bipedalism may have come about as early as Australopithecus afarensis but that such refinements as increase of cranial size developed much more rapidly after the appearance of Homo erectus.

The multiregional model of recent human evolut...

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