Journal ArticleDOI
The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
Sally McBrearty,Alison S. Brooks +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The African Middle and early Late Pleistocene hominid fossil record is fairly continuous and in it can be recognized a number of probably distinct species that provide plausible ancestors for H. sapiens, and suggests a gradual assembling of the package of modern human behaviors in Africa, and its later export to other regions of the Old World.About:
This article is published in Journal of Human Evolution.The article was published on 2000-11-01. It has received 2165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Behavioral modernity & Later Stone Age.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Autosomal Resequence Data Reveal Late Stone Age Signals of Population Expansion in Sub-Saharan African Foraging and Farming Populations
Murray P. Cox,David A. Morales,August E. Woerner,J. P. Sozanski,Jeffrey D. Wall,Michael F. Hammer +5 more
TL;DR: Interestingly, both hunter-gatherers (San and Biaka) and food-producers (Mandenka and Yorubans) best fit models with population growth beginning in the Late Pleistocene, supporting the hypothesis that population growth played a significant role in the evolution of Late Pleistsocene human cultures.
Journal Article
An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study
TL;DR: The current institutional position of literary Darwinism has attracted a good deal of criticism from diverse disciplinary perspectives, from traditional humanism, poststructuralism, cognitive poetics, and evolutionary social science as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Identifying major transitions in the evolution of lithic cutting edge production rates
Antoine Muller,Chris Clarkson +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that the most significant transition in efficiency likely took place with the introduction of small foliate biface, Levallois and prismatic blade knapping, all introduced in the Middle Stone Age / Middle Palaeolithic among early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
Journal Article
The Talking Neanderthals: What Do Fossils, Genetics, and Archeology Say?
TL;DR: This issue has been debated back and forth for decades, without resolution, but in recent years new evidence has become available that suggests Neanderthals have language.
Journal Article
Crystal quartz backed tools from the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu Cave
TL;DR: A technological analysis of crystal quartz backed tools from the Howiesons Poort of Sibudu Cave shows that they are smaller than backed tools made from other rock types.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy
Douglas G. Martinson,Nicklas G Pisias,James D. Hays,John Imbrie,Theodore C. Moore,Nicholas J Shackleton +5 more
TL;DR: Using the concept of "orbital tuning", a continuous, high-resolution deep-sea chronostratigraphy has been developed spanning the last 300,000 yr as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution
TL;DR: All these mitochondrial DMAs stem from one woman who is postulated to have lived about 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa, implying that each area was colonised repeatedly.