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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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Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
Curtis W. Marean,Miryam Bar-Matthews,Jocelyn Bernatchez,Erich C. Fisher,Paul Goldberg,Andy I.R. Herries,Zenobia Jacobs,Antonieta Jerardino,Panagiotis Karkanas,Tom Minichillo,Peter J. Nilssen,Erin Thompson,Ian Watts,Hope M. Williams +13 more
TL;DR: It is shown that by ∼164’kyr ago (±12 kyr) at Pinnacle Point (on the south coast of South Africa) humans expanded their diet to include marine resources, perhaps as a response to these harsh environmental conditions.
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Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.
Christopher S. Henshilwood,Francesco d'Errico,Royden Yates,Zenobia Jacobs,Chantal Tribolo,Geoff A. T. Duller,Norbert Mercier,Judith Sealy,Hélène Valladas,Ian Watts,Ann G. Wintle +10 more
TL;DR: Two abstract representations engraved on pieces of red ochre recovered from the Middle Stone Age layers at Blombos Cave in South Africa support the emergence of modern human behavior in Africa at least 35,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic.
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Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes.
Vincent Macaulay,Catherine Hill,Alessandro Achilli,Chiara Rengo,Douglas J. Clarke,William J. Meehan,James Blackburn,Ornella Semino,Rosaria Scozzari,Fulvio Cruciani,Adi Taha,Norazila Kassim Shaari,Joseph Maripa Raja,Patimah Ismail,Zafarina Zainuddin,William H Goodwin,David Bulbeck,Hans-Jürgen Bandelt,Stephen Oppenheimer,Antonio Torroni,Martin B. Richards +20 more
TL;DR: It is shown that mitochondrial DNA variation in isolated “relict” populations in southeast Asia supports the view that there was only a single dispersal from Africa, most likely via a southern coastal route, through India and onward into southeast Asia and Australasia.
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Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution
TL;DR: The ethnographic record of foragers provides the only direct observations of human behavior in the absence of agriculture, and as such is invaluable for testing hypotheses about human behavioral evolution.
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AFRICAN GENETIC DIVERSITY: Implications for Human Demographic History, Modern Human Origins, and Complex Disease Mapping
TL;DR: This review summarizes patterns and the evolutionary origins of genetic diversity present in African populations, as well as their implications for the mapping of complex traits, including disease susceptibility.
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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.