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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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Working Memory, its Executive Functions, and the Emergence of Modern Thinking
TL;DR: This paper examined the possible origins of modern thinking by evaluating the cognitive models of working memory, executive functions and their interrelationship, and proposed that a genetic mutation affected neural networks in the prefrontal cortex approximately 60,000 to 130,000 years ago.
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On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives
TL;DR: The current state of the Late Pleistocene Asian human evolutionary record is reviewed from archaeology, hominin paleontology, geochronology, genetics, and paleoclimatology, and cultural variability discerned from archaeological studies indicates that modern human behaviors did not simply spread across Asia in a time-transgressive pattern.
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On the antiquity of language: The reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences
Dan Dediu,Stephen C. Levinson +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued here that recognizably modern language is likely an ancient feature of the authors' genus pre-dating at least the common ancestor of modern humans and Neandertals about half a million years ago, and argues against a saltationist scenario for the evolution of language, and toward a gradual process of culture-gene co-evolution extending to the present day.
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The archaeological and genetic foundations of the European population during the Late Glacial: implications for ‘agricultural thinking’
TL;DR: The authors presented a population history of this sub-continental region by providing a chronologically secure framework for the interpretation of data from genetics and archaeology, and defined five population events in this period, using dates-as-data, and examined the implications for the archaeology of Late Glacial colonization.
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Transmission fidelity is the key to the build-up of cumulative culture
Hannah Lewis,Kevin N. Laland +1 more
TL;DR: The findings support the idea that high-fidelity transmission is the key driver of human cumulative culture, and that progress in cumulative culture depends more on trait combination than novel invention or trait modification.
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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.