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In a March 26, 1999 issue of Science G. A. Clark contributed an article entitled Highly Visible, Curiously Intangible, subtitled modern human origins research. This article tackles the issues surrounding the two competing models of human evolution: the continuity model and the replacement model. Clark borrowed the title from the geneticist Henry Harpending’s phrase—“a highly visible, yet intangible field,” which Harpeding used to describe the controversial endeavor to trace the modern human origins. Clark states that until scientists make explicit paradigms for both replacement and continuity models, each model supporter camp will interpret common variables differently, to make them “fit” each respective model. Clark (1999) wrote, ”We are, in effect, consumers of one another’s research conclusions, but we select among alternative sets of research conclusions in accordance with our biases and preconceptions. These biases and preconceptions must be subjected to critical scrutiny. As long as there is no explicit concern with the logic of inference—how we know what we think we know about the past—there can be no consensus” (Clark, 1999, p. 2029). This p
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Approximate Word count = 1589
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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