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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.

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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.
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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.

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The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

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- 13 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andamanese do not derive substantial ancestry from an early dispersal of modern humans; instead, their modern human ancestry is consistent with coming from the same source as that of other non-Africans.
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The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War

TL;DR: It is shown that under conditions likely to have been experienced by late Pleistocene and early Holocene humans, neither parochialism nor altruism would have been viable singly, but by promoting group conflict, they could have evolved jointly.
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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

TL;DR: Boyd and Richerson as mentioned in this paper argued that culture is a pool of information stored in the brains of a population, that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes.
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The Evolution of Language

TL;DR: The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.
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Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

TL;DR: A population model shows that demography is a major determinant in the maintenance of cultural complexity and that variation in regional subpopulation density and/or migratory activity results in spatial structuring of cultural skill accumulation.
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A “marginality” model to explain major spatial and temporal gaps in the old and new world Pleistocene settlement records

TL;DR: In this paper, a risk-minimization model is proposed to explain the perplexingly low visibility of the archaeological record until 12,000 B.P. This would require large foraging territories and very wide spacing of proximal bands, so that the exchange of vital information on temporary or migratory resources was minimal.
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Luminescence dating at Katanda — a reassessment

TL;DR: In this article, a luminescence date of 80ka for sediments associated with bone harpoon points recovered at Katanda in East Africa has been reassessed using additional samples.
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Taphonomy, paleoecology, and hominids of Lainyamok, Kenya☆

TL;DR: Lainyamok is a hominid fossil and artifact locality west of Lake Magadi in the southern Kenya rift as discussed by the authors, which is assigned a Middle Pleistocene age, provisionally 0·70-0·56 Ma, based on K-Ar dates, regional association with the Oloronga Beds, and deposition prior to grid faulting in southern Kenya at the end of the middle-Pleistocene.
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Climate and the Hominid Postcranial Skeleton in Wurm and Early Holocene Europe

TL;DR: A review of conversion formulae for light-skinned populations using Photovolt and E.L. Reflectometers and the environmental correlates of skin colour from the 1970s and 1980s.
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