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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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Putting ochre to the test: replication studies of adhesives that may have been used for hafting tools in the Middle Stone Age.
TL;DR: Replication studies show that ochre is indeed a useful loading agent for adhesive; however, there are other potential loading agents that are brittle and difficult to work with.
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Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age
Alison S. Brooks,Alison S. Brooks,John E. Yellen,John E. Yellen,Richard Potts,Anna K. Behrensmeyer,Alan L. Deino,David E. Leslie,Stanley H. Ambrose,Jeffrey R. Ferguson,Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico,Andrew Zipkin,Scott Whittaker,Jeffrey E. Post,Elizabeth G. Veatch,Kimberly Foecke,Jennifer B. Clark +17 more
TL;DR: Three papers present the oldest East African evidence of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and elucidate the system of technology and behavior associated with the origin of Homo sapiens and present evidence for the demise of Acheulean technology that preceded the MSA.
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Neandertal demise: an archaeological analysis of the modern human superiority complex.
Paola Villa,Wil Roebroeks +1 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of the archaeological records of Neandertals and their modern human contemporaries finds no support for claims that modern humans are seen as superior in a wide range of domains, including weaponry and subsistence strategies, which would have led to the demise of Ne andertals.
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Human brain evolution: transcripts, metabolites and their regulators
TL;DR: This Review shows how a strategy to focus on human-specific changes at the level of intermediate phenotypes in conjunction with evolutionary changes in gene regulation involving transcription factors, microRNA and proximal regulatory elements has yielded some of the first hints about the mechanisms of human cognition.
Complex Projectile Technology and Homo sapiens Dispersal into Western Eurasia
John J. Shea,Matthew Sisk +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that complex projectile weaponry was a key strategic innovation driving Late Pleistocene human dispersal into western Eurasia after 50,000-Ka, which enabled Homo sapiens to overcome obstacles that constrained previous human migration from Africa to temperate western Europe.
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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.