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Paleoanthropology

the hypothesis that only one hominin species existed at any one time because the cultural niche would exclude competing lineages.

In paleoanthropology, single species hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that only one hominin species existed at any one time because the cultural niche would exclude competing lineages. This meaning comes from Wolpoff (1971) in Man.[1]

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References

Wolpoff, M. H. (1971). Competitive Exclusion Among Lower Pleistocene Hominids: The Single Species Hypothesis. Man, 6(4), 601. https://doi.org/10.2307/2799185

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