a herd of elephants gathers around a watering hole on the savanna. How would you classify this type of distribution ?

When you are making a guess you are forming a hypothesis

Many archeologists and anthropologists disagree with dr. thorne's view.  thorne strongly believes that what many calls "homo erectus"  was in fact  homo sapiens,  and that they migrated out of africa almost 2 million years ago and dispersed throughout europe and asia. that's way different  from what scientists have always believed about the evolution of the species.