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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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Symbolic Use of Terrestrial Gastropod Opercula during the Middle Stone Age at Porc‐Epic Cave, Ethiopia
TL;DR: The Middle Stone Age site of Porc-Epic in southeastern Ethiopia has produced hundreds of opercula of the terrestrial gastropod Revoilia guillainopsis as discussed by the authors.
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Elementary Syntactic Structures: Prospects of a Feature-Free Syntax
TL;DR: This chapter discusses grammatical structures and their role in the loss of syntactic variation, as well as some of the strategies used to deal with variation.
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Using Pyrotechnology: Fire-related Features and Activities with a Focus on the African Middle Stone Age
TL;DR: The earliest putative evidence of fire use is from the African sites of Swartkrans and Koobi Fora (1,500,000-1,000,000 years ago) as mentioned in this paper.
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A parsimonious neutral model suggests Neanderthal replacement was determined by migration and random species drift
Oren Kolodny,Marcus W. Feldman +1 more
TL;DR: A neutral model of species drift is developed showing that rapid Neanderthal replacement can be explained parsimoniously by simple migration dynamics, and suggests that although selection and environmental factors may or may not have played a role in the inter-species dynamics of Neanderthals and modern humans, the eventual replacement was determined by the repeated migration of modern humans from Africa into Eurasia.
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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.