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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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Archeology and the evolution of human behavior

TL;DR: The difference in practice means that human paleontologists are usually ill-equipped to assess controversies in Paleolithic archeology and vice versa, and the difference in theory is more profound, since human Paleontologists unflinchingly attribute major morphological changes or differences to natural selection, mutation, gene drift, or gene flow.
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Major Issues in the Emergence of Modern Humans

Paul Mellars
- 01 Jun 1989 - 
TL;DR: The authors discuss des origines biologiques et comportementales des populations humaines modernes : recherches sur la transition entre les populations " archaiques " and les populations'modernes " d'un point de vue anatomique.
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Origin and evolution of the genus Homo.

TL;DR: It is remarkable that the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the earliest known representatives of the authors' own genus, Homo, remain obscure, but advances in techniques for absolute dating and reassessments of the fossils themselves have rendered untenable a simple unilineal model of human evolution.
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