Robin Dennell

TL;DR: It is shown here that it is time to develop alternatives to one of palaeoanthropology's most basic paradigms: ‘Out of Africa 1’.

TL;DR: It is argued that the chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils and the African archaeological record support an emerging view of a highly structured African prehistory that should be considered in human evolutionary inferences, prompting new interpretations, questions, and interdisciplinary research directions.

TL;DR: The authors proposed a population model for Middle Pleistocene Europe that is based on demographic sources and sinks, and suggested that this pattern of repeated colonisation and extinction may help explain the morphological variability of European Middle-Pleistocene hominins, particularly Homo heidelbergensis.

TL;DR: It is suggested that current data are more consistent with the view that Lower Pleistocene hominid populations outside East Africa were often spatially and temporally discontinuous, that Hominid expansion was strongly constrained by latitude, and that occupation of temperate latitudes north of latitude 40 degrees was largely confined to interglacial periods.

TL;DR: Dennell as discussed by the authors provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago, and presents an authoritative and comprehensive framework for investigations of Asia's oldest societies, challenges many long-standing assumptions about its earliest inhabitants.