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Which of the Following Statements Is NOT Correct Regarding the Multiregional

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Which of the following statements is NOT correct regarding the multiregional and out-of-Africa hypotheses for the origin of modern humans?


A) The multiregional hypothesis predicts an approximately 2-million-year divergence time among African and non-African mitochondrial DNA sequences.
B) The out-of-Africa hypothesis is consistent with an approximately 200,000-year divergence time among African and non-African mitochondrial DNA sequences.
C) The multiregional hypothesis predicts that African samples would form a monophyletic group in a phylogenetic analysis including African and non-African samples.
D) The out-of-Africa hypothesis predicts that African samples should form a paraphyletic group in a phylogenetic analysis including African and non-African samples.

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