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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 Diversity of Late Holocene Shellfish Exploitation in Velondriake, Southwest Madagascar
TL;DR: A detailed description of archaeological shellfish assemblages from Madagascar is given in this article, which is the only work to date with regard to shellfish exploitation either in the past or present.
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Evolution of improvement and cumulative culture
TL;DR: A mathematical model uses a mathematical model to investigate the conditions under which cultural traits tend to be improved for a higher level of culture to evolve, and sheds light on the origins of human cumulative culture.
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Editorial: Language Evolution: Computer Models for Empirical Data
Paul Vogt,Bart de Boer +1 more
TL;DR: This methodological article serves as an introduction to this special issue, which is meant to encourage more and better interaction between empirical studies and computer modeling with regard to the study of language evolution, and stresses the importance of initializing the computer model with empirical data.
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Matériaux, transformations et fonctions de l'ocre au Middle Stone Age : le cas de Diepkloof Rock Shelter dans le contexte de l'Afrique australe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of the Crop of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the production of perles, motifs, and technologies of taille specifiques.
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A retouched bone shaft from the Late Mousterian at Fumane cave (Italy). Technological, experimental and micro-wear analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a retouched bone shaft was found in a Late Mousterian layer at Fumane Cave, northern Italy, and the interpretation of the anthropic nature of the retouch was based on the identification of specific morpho-technological markers through experimentation.
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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.