The hypothesis that modern humans originated through a process of simultaneous local transition from H.erectus to H.sapiens throughout the inhabited world is called:
A)multiregional hypothesis.
B)recent African origins hypothesis.
C)transitional hypothesis.
D)out of African hypothesis.
E)regional hypothesis.

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The multiregional hypothesis suggests that modern humans evolved from local populations of H. erectus in different regions of the world at the same time, with gene flow between these different populations. This is in contrast to the recent African origins hypothesis, which posits that modern humans originated in Africa and then spread out to other parts of the world. The other options, transitional hypothesis and regional hypothesis, are not commonly used to describe models of human evolution. The out of African hypothesis is another name for the recent African origins hypothesis.

The Hypothesis That Modern Humans Originated Through a Process of Simultaneous