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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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Middle and late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age lithic technology from Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa).
TL;DR: Comparison with other material from the Southern African MSA suggests that there is significant inter- and intra-site variability in the Southern Africa Middle Stone Age, even between portions of assemblages that are roughly contemporaneous.
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Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a taxonomy of the Kent's Cavern and Grotta del Cavallo dental remains, and their poor stratigraphic context precludes dating by association.
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Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age larger mammal faunal assemblage from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa.
TL;DR: Comparisons with analogous datasets from two other sites in the Western Cape demonstrate that MSA faunal assemblages from nearby coastal sites have complex and different taphonomic histories both within and between sites.
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The Shuidonggou site complex: new excavations and implications for the earliest Late Paleolithic in North China
Shuwen Pei,Xing Gao,Huimin Wang,Kathleen Kuman,Christopher J. Bae,Fuyou Chen,Ying Guan,Yue Zhang,Xiaoling Zhang,Fei Peng,Xiaoli Li +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a multidisciplinary research project was conducted at the Shuidonggou (Choei-tong-keou) site complex in northern China, a series of localities that date from the initial Late Paleolithic to the Neolithic.
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Cladistic analyses of behavioural variation in wild Pan troglodytes: exploring the chimpanzee culture hypothesis.
TL;DR: Three sets of cladistic analyses were designed to shed light on issues relating to interpopulation variation of wild Pan troglodytes and investigated whether chimpanzee culture is adaptive, finding that the chimpanzee cultural data are not only comparable to a series of modern human cultural data sets in terms of how tree-like they are, but are also comparable toa series of genetic, anatomical, and behavioural data sets that can be assumed to have been produced by a branching process.
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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.