Hello!
Today I wrote a synthesis of a passage and a lecture as required for the
Toefl-test. It's about two different theories of the origin of the homo sapiens. Hope it's not to confusing and you could be so kind to proofread it.
Thank you!
"According to
the Out of Africa hypothesis,
today's mankind Homo sapiens spread from Africa
abroad to all continents, replacing all less developed groups of humans like Neanderthals.
Researchers found common gene sequences in recent populations from all over the world; therefore, they suggest that all humans are descendants of one little
population group living 200
,000 years ago. Due to this common origin, there is a huge similarity among humans compared with other species.
Scientists have moreover reconstructed the pathway
, humans took emigrating from Africa the routes taken by the migrating peoples. As the researches put it, early h
umans took a route through the Middle East, before spreading all over the planet. Since this model has been supported by
some founds of fossils,
fossil remains, the
Out of Africa theory is widely accepted today.
In
the his/a lecture, the professor
[which professor? Who is he?]counters the hypothesis presented
in the passage.
above. He introduces an alternative
theory, called the
multiregional or
continuity hypothesis.
According to this model,
humans had been settling all over Eurasia millions of years ago; thus, this
theory determines
humans appearance the evidence of humans outside Africa long before it would be expected by the hypothesis presented
in the passage by the Out of Africa theory. Although the
multiregional theory assumes
separated development of local populations in Eurasia, it claims that sometimes single members of different groups got together; therefore, common gene sequences in today's mankind
were can be explained by gene flow, contrary to the
Out of Africa theory in
which it is postulated that they result from a common origin."