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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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Scaling up: Material culture as scaffold for the social brain
TL;DR: It is argued that emotional and social engagement with objects acted as a crucial scaffold for the scaling-up of human social networks beyond those of the authors' closest relatives the chimpanzees to the global ‘small world’ of modern humans.
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Innovation in cultural systems
TL;DR: A range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the role of innovation in human culture evolution.
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Modern Human Desert Adaptations: A Libyan Perspective on the Aterian Complex
TL;DR: This article reviewed the recent evidence from the Libyan Aterian sites and those that immediately preceded and followed, and addressed the question of the spread of anatomically modern humans in North Africa.
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Hook tool manufacture in New Caledonian crows: behavioural variation and the influence of raw materials
TL;DR: It is shown that New Caledonian crows’ manufacture of hooked stick tools can be much more variable than previously thought, and can involve two newly-discovered behaviours: ‘pulling’ for detaching stems and bending of the tool shaft.
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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.