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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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Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality
David Wengrow,David Graeber +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop an alternative model of "Palaeolithic politics" which emphasizes the ability of hunter-gatherers to alternate consciously and deliberately between contrasting modes of political organization, including a variety of hierarchical and egalitarian possibilities.
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Imitation, pretend play, and childhood: essential elements in the evolution of human culture?
TL;DR: It is argued that the emergence of childhood as a step in the life cycle was critical to the evolution of the human cultural mind and that imitation and play represent a foundation upon which human culture flourished and that neither are prevalent in nonhuman animals.
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Human origins: Out of Africa
TL;DR: Modern humans appear to have definitively exited Africa to populate the rest of the globe only after both their physical and cognitive peculiarities had been acquired within that continent.
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Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience
TL;DR: A theory to explain the extended ontogenetic and brain development periods of big-brained organisms, fMRI research on the neural correlates of romantic attraction, an evolutionary view of sex differences in spatial cognition, a theory of language evolution that draws on recent research on mirror neurons, and evidence for a rudimentary theory of mind in nonhuman primates are found.
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Fire regimes during the Last Glacial
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify 67 sites (30 sites with better than millennial resolution) which have records for some part of the last glacial to analyse changes in global fire regimes.
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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.