I got to admit, your internet debate/insult skills are quite good. However, your knowledge of the scientific method is not so good.
Now, if you actually had read some of the study and understood it, they were proposing that a certain hominid was not from Africa based on their data. However, they don't have enough data to falsify a hypothesis or reject the null hypothesis, so they do neither. They are, like good scientists, very circumcised in their conclusions based on one study.
All they say is that they find a piece of data. That piece of data, coincidentally, that supports of the "Multi-origin Theory" or possibly the European origins of humanity.
"More fossils are needed but at this point it seems likely that the Eastern Mediterranean needs to be considered as just as likely a place of hominine diversification and hominin origins as tropical Africa."
Go ahead and deny dictionary definitions, the wider literature, and a limited understand of the scientific method. That's a lonely place to be.
Ok, last question:
Where do the authors call this hypothesis a theory?
Ok, last question (since they call it neither).
Why are the authors of this one study the arbiters of what is a "theory" and what is a "hypothesis"?
I've forced you to retreat to a tiny corner, but your tenacity is admirable.
so, not even the authors claim that it is a theory.
that leaves nobody but yourself.
pretty lonely, isn't it?
lol
I got to admit, your internet debate/insult skills are quite good. However, your knowledge of the scientific method is not so good.
Now, if you actually had read some of the study and understood it, they were proposing that a certain hominid was not from Africa based on their data. However, they don't have enough data to falsify a hypothesis or reject the null hypothesis, so they do neither. They are, like good scientists, very circumcised in their conclusions based on one study.
All they say is that they find a piece of data. That piece of data, coincidentally, that supports of the "Multi-origin Theory" or possibly the European origins of humanity.
"More fossils are needed but at this point it seems likely that the Eastern Mediterranean needs to be considered as just as likely a place of hominine diversification and hominin origins as tropical Africa."
Go ahead and deny dictionary definitions, the wider literature, and a limited understand of the scientific method. That's a lonely place to be.