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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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The Late Quaternary Hominins of Africa: The Skeletal Evidence from MIS 6-2
TL;DR: The late Quaternary African hominin fossil record provides a tantalizing glimpse into considerable temporal and geographic morphological diversity within the genus Homo as discussed by the authors. But only a dozen or so sites provide particularly informative or interesting evidence spanning this period of nearly 200 kyr.
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Hommes et hyènes face aux recompositions des communautés d'Ongulés (MIS 5-3) : Éléments pour un cadre paléoécologique des sociétés du Paléolithique moyen et supérieur ancien d'Europe de l'Ouest
TL;DR: In Europe, le role du climat fait souvent partie integrante des modeles proposes for expliquer les bouleversements des societes humaines a la transition Paleolithique moyen - superieur (e.g. extinction des neandertaliens, developpement de comportements dits " modernes ").
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Milestones in the development of symbolic behaviour: a case study from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
TL;DR: Achlioptas et al. as mentioned in this paper found evidence to support the position that elements of symbolic behaviour emerged long before the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, and the archaeological record of Wonderwerk Cave serves as a unique and extensive diachronic record of milestones in the development of symbolic behavior.
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Nature and significance of the Howiesons Poort to post-Howiesons Poort transition at Klein Kliphuis rockshelter, South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the transition from Howiesons Poort to post-Howiesons poort technologies at the rock shelter site of Klein Kliphuis, South Africa is considered.
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Personal Ornaments and Symbolism Among the Neanderthals
TL;DR: Results from the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome brought palaeogenetics in line with the human palaeontological evidence for extensive Neanderthal/modern admixture at the time of contact, thus removing the rationale for thinking about Neanderthals as a different species altogether.
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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.