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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
Sally McBrearty,Alison S. Brooks +1 more
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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
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Three Roots of Human Recency
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that one impact of racial liberalism after World War II seems to have been a delay in the recognition of fossil hominid diversity, in consequence of fears of excluding one or another now-extinct hominoid from the Family of Man.
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European Neanderthal stone hunting weapons reveal complex behaviour long before the appearance of modern humans
TL;DR: Stone weapon points constitute a major innovation appearing at the end of the Middle Pleistocene in Europe, Africa and the Near East; that is, among both sapiens and Neanderthal populations as mentioned in this paper.
Archaeology and the origins of modern humans: European and African perspectives
TL;DR: This chapter compares the archaeological evidence associated with the appearance of anatomically modern humans in Europe and Africa to assess how far these well-documented changes in the archaeological record reflect not only major shifts in behavioural patterns, but also underlying shifts in the cognitive capacities for behaviour, including increasing complexity in the structure of language.
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From Homininity to Humanity: Compassion from the Earliest Archaics to Modern Humans
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose key stages in the emotional motivation to help others; the feeling of compassion, in human evolution, and highlight what appear to be particularly significant thresholds in the development of compassion for human social relationships.
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Edge damage distribution at the assemblage level on Middle Stone Age lithics: an image-based GIS approach
TL;DR: In this paper, a technique for documenting concentrations of edge damage on an assemblage level to infer taphonomic processes and to record usewear and retouch was proposed, specifically aimed at patterning on the assemblages scale, rather than on individual artifacts.
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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.
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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.