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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 assimilation model, modern human origins in europe, and the extinction of neandertals
TL;DR: The authors concluded that the assimilation model is the best explanation for the origin of anatomically modern humans in Europe, if Neandertals are assimilated into in-migrating populations of modern people in Europe.
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Language evolution: A brief guide for linguists
TL;DR: For the benefit of linguists new to the field of language evolution, the author of as discussed by the authors sets out the issues that need to be distinguished in any research on it, and emphasises the extremely interdisciplinary nature of this field and also the importance of involvement in it by linguists, after more than a century of neglect.
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Development of Middle Stone Age innovation linked to rapid climate change
TL;DR: It is shown that the occurrence of innovation was tightly linked to abrupt climate change, which strongly implies that innovational pulses of early modern human behaviour were climatically influenced and linked to the adoption of refugia.
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Desert speleothems reveal climatic window for African exodus of early modern humans
TL;DR: Using high-precision multicollector- inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) methods, this article showed that a major cluster of wet episodes (the last recorded in the area) occurred between 140 and 110 ka.
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The Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought
TL;DR: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the bilingual turn in the study of language and cognition have been discussed in this paper, with a focus on linguistic systems of symbolic relationships.
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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.