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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 Muddle in the Middle Pleistocene: The Lower–Middle Paleolithic Transition from the Levantine Perspective
TL;DR: This paper examined the Middle Pleistocene records from East Africa, southern Africa, Europe and the Levant to examine the amplitude of variation within each techno-complex, as well as to question whether there are diachronic changes in the amplitude and frequency of techno-typological variations.
Religion and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
TL;DR: This paper examined three ancient traits of religion whose origins likely date back to the Upper Paleolithic: ancestor worship, shamanism, and the belief in natural and animal spirits, and argued that these traits played a role in the evolution of human cooperation through the mechanism of social scrutiny.
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Towards complexity in osseous raw material exploitation by the first anatomically modern humans in Europe: Aurignacian antler working
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors asses changes in the exploitation of osseous raw material (namely deer antler) during the early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe, through examining four variables; raw material procurement, blank production, object manufacture and equipment maintenance.
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The Early Later Stone Age in East Africa: Excavations and Lithic Assemblages from Lukenya Hill
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of excavations at the Later Stone Age (LSA) site of GvJm62, Lukenya Hill, and analysis of site formation processes on this inselberg rock shelter.
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What happened in the origin of human consciousness
TL;DR: It appears that the biological (neural) capacity underwriting the radically new behavioral mode arose as an incidental exaptation in the same process that produced the new skeletal structure of Homo sapiens, but that it lay unexpressed until it was "discovered" by means of a cultural innovation, plausibly the invention of language.
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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.