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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 Importance of Honey Consumption in Human Evolution
TL;DR: The ability to find and exploit beehives using stone tools may have been an innovation that allowed early Homo to nutritionally out-compete other species and may have provided critical energy to fuel the enlarging hominin brain.
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Absence of post‐Miocene Red Sea land bridges: biogeographic implications
TL;DR: This article presented a quantitative history of water depth above the Red Sea sill for the last 470,000 years, a time period that includes the four most recent glacial interglacial cycles, and discussed the predictable consequences of any land bridge formation on Red Sea sedimentary and microfossil records.
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The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya.
Christian A. Tryon,J. Tyler Faith,Daniel J. Peppe,David L. Fox,Kieran P. McNulty,Kirsten E. Jenkins,Holly M. Dunsworth,William E. H. Harcourt-Smith +7 more
TL;DR: The Wasiriya Beds of Rusinga Island, Kenya, preserve a Pleistocene sedimentary archive with radiocarbon age estimates of >33-45 ka that contains Middle Stone Age artifacts and abundant, well-preserved fossil fauna: a co-occurrence rare in eastern Africa, particularly in the region bounding Lake Victoria.
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Thinking through the Middle Stone Age of sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: It shows that anatomically modern humans have evolved by ∼200 ka in the region, and that relatively high levels of symbolic behaviour, and behavioural and cognitive complexity were achieved long before the previous 40–50 ka benchmark.
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The Evolution of the Human Capacity for “Killing at a Distance”: The Human Fossil Evidence for the Evolution of ProjectileWeaponry
TL;DR: Variation in scapular and ulnar morphology within and between groups of fossil and recent humans relative to the question of the origins of projectile weaponry is analyzed to suggest that projectile weapons arose in the African later MSA and moved into Europe in the hands of modern humans.
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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.