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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

Swapan Mallick, +104 more
- 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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La transition du Moustérien à l'Atérien

L. Wengler
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: In this article, le bilan des connaissances sur le mousterien and l'Aterien ancien maghrebins montre une carence de donnees; on sait neanmoins that le Mousterien est proche d'un Charentien of type Ferrassie, donné a Homo sapiens non-neandertaloide, de meme qu'a l'a terien, who lui succede.
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A multivariate study of the Petralona skull

TL;DR: The Petralona skull from Greece has been generally accepted as an Upper Pleistocene variant of Neanderthal Man as discussed by the authors, and it was included in a series of multivariate analyses performed by the author on cranial measurements of pleistocene hominids.
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Discovery of Postcranial Remains of Homo erectus and Associated Artefacts in Bed IV at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

M. D. Leakey
- 06 Aug 1971 - 
TL;DR: The discovery of a left femur shaft and hip bone of Homo erectus in association with an Acheulean industry in Bed IV represents the first direct association at Olduvai of a well defined artefact assemblage with H. erectus.
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Bodies, Brawn, Brains and Noses: Human Ancestors and Human Predation

TL;DR: It may be more appropriate to see predation, to the extent that it occurs among living peoples, as but one aspect of the authors' eclectic means of exploiting the environment, than to view systematic predation an as importantfactor in the evolution of many of the biological features that distinguish us from their primate relatives.
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