>> Note also the conclusion of this secular (?) author. Homo sapiens
>> did not "coevolve" from many different homo erectus populations.
This is not a radical conclusion. The notion that all modern humans
come from a small root population, probably in Africa, was already the
majority view. The idea that Homo erectus populations around the world
all "coevolved" towards Homo sapiens was a minority position, and the
new findings will probably make it more so.
Which leads to the answer of your next question:
>> How much of the fossil evidence for human evolution does this
>> effectively eliminate, I wonder?
None, although it does support the already widespread idea that some
fossils (e.g. Asian fossils such as Java Man and Peking Man) were our
uncles and aunts rather than our parents.
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