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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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Language Abilities in Neanderthals
TL;DR: Neanderthal language abilities cannot be directly observed, but indirect evidence is available in their anatomy, archeology, and DNA as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to conclude that some language abilities, if not necessarily full modern syntactic language, were present in Neanderthals.
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Archaic and modern human distal humeral morphology.
TL;DR: The morphology of the proximal ulna has been shown to effectively differentiate archaic or premodern humans from modern humans, and the taxonomic utility of another portion of the elbow, the distal humerus, is tested as a discriminator of archaic and modern humans.
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The nature of 'stone-lines' in the African Quaternary record: archaeological resolution at the rainforest site of Mosumu, Equatorial Guinea
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present quantitative and spatial geoarchaeological data from the site of Mosumu, in the tropical rain forest of continental Equatorial Guinea, which yielded Middle and Later Stone Age assemblages dated to at least the last 30,000 years in a "stone-line" context.
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Cultural Exaptation and Cultural Neural Reuse: A Mechanism for the Emergence of Modern Culture and Behavior
TL;DR: This paper proposed a plausible biocultural mechanism at the basis of cultural evolution, which relies on the notions of cultural exaptation and cultural neural reuse, may account for the asynchronous, discontinuous, and patchy emergence of innovations around the globe.
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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.