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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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Hunting and overhunting in the Levantine Late Middle Palaeolithic
John D. Speth,Jamie L. Clark +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the larger mammals from late Middle Palaeolithic Kebara Cave (Israel) and offer eight principal conclusions concerning Neanderthal hunting activities at the site, concluding that most procurement was by hunting, not scavenging.
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Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa
TL;DR: It is found that the Sahara was not uniformly ameliorated between ~130 and 75 thousand years ago (ka), as has been stated, and populations at the Eurasian gateway were strongly structured, which has implications for refining the demographic parameters of dispersals out of Africa.
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Differences in Fatty Acid Composition between Aquatic and Terrestrial Insects Used as Food in Human Nutrition
Diego Fontaneto,Mila Tommaseo-Ponzetta,Claudio Galli,Patrizia Risé,Robert H. Glew,Maurizio G. Paoletti +5 more
TL;DR: Because terrestrial insects are more abundant and easier to collect, they can be considered a better source of LC-PUFA than aquatic ones, with terrestrial insects being significantly richer in particular omega-6 fatty acids.
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Human choices and environmental constraints: deciphering the variability of large game procurement from Mousterian to Aurignacian times (MIS 5-3) in southwestern France
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the variability in hunted fauna using multivariate statistical analysis of quantitative faunal lists of 148 assemblages from 39 archeological sequences from Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5 through MIS 3.
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The Vines of Complexity
TL;DR: The authors view egalitarian structures as complex institutions which, together with their accompanying ideologies, have arisen to reduce the transaction costs of exchange in small-scale societies and argue that egalitarian structures and the coalitions that maintain them vary as greatly in configuration, scope, and nature as do hierarchical structures of power.
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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.