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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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Modern human origins: progress and prospects.
TL;DR: It is concluded that a recent African origin can be supported for H. sapiens, morphologically, behaviourally and genetically, but that more evidence will be needed, both from Africa and elsewhere, before an absolute African origin for the authors' species and its behavioural characteristics can be established and explained.
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Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation The Interdependence Hypothesis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation derive from mutualistic collaboration (with social selection against cheaters), and that these new collaborative skills and motivations were scaled up to group life in general, as modern humans faced competition from other groups.
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Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
Zenobia Jacobs,Richard G. Roberts,R.F. Galbraith,H. J. Deacon,Rainer Grün,Alex Mackay,Peter Mitchell,Ralf Vogelsang,Lyn Wadley +8 more
TL;DR: Age ages for nine sites from varied climatic and ecological zones across southern Africa show that both industries were short-lived (5000 years or less), separated by about 7000 years, and coeval with genetic estimates of population expansion and exit times.
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Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
Francesco d'Errico,Christopher S. Henshilwood,Christopher S. Henshilwood,Graeme Lawson,Marian Vanhaeren,Anne-Marie Tillier,Marie Soressi,Frédérique Bresson,Bruno Maureille,April Nowell,Joseba Lakarra,Lucinda Backwell,Michèle Julien +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, a critical reappraisal contradicts the hypothesis of a symbolic revolution coinciding with the arrival of anatomically modern humans in Europe some 40,000 years ago.
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Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
Kyle S. Brown,Kyle S. Brown,Curtis W. Marean,Andy I.R. Herries,Andy I.R. Herries,Zenobia Jacobs,Chantal Tribolo,David R. Braun,David Roberts,Michael C. Meyer,Jocelyn Bernatchez +10 more
TL;DR: Replication experiments and analysis of artifacts suggest that humans in South Africa at this time, and perhaps earlier, systematically heated stone materials, including silcrete to improve its flaking properties in making tools.
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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.