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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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Species, Species Concepts, and Primate Evolution

TL;DR: The fossil record shows clear trends inSpeciation in Living Hominoid Primates and Geographic Variation in Primates, and Species Recognition in the Fossil Record is concerned.
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Confidence intervals on stratigraphic ranges

TL;DR: In this article, Strauss and Sadler provide a method for calculating confidence intervals on the endpoints of local stratigraphic ranges, which can also be applied to composite sections; confidence intervals may be placed on times of origin and extinction for entire species or lineages.
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Classical confidence intervals and Bayesian probability estimates for ends of local taxon ranges

TL;DR: The Dirichlet distribution of gap lengths between fossil finds is used to estimate the true endpoints of a taxon in a stratigraphic section of a fossil taxon.
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Anatomy, behavior, and modern human origins

TL;DR: The fossil record suggests that modern human morphology evolved in Africa between 150,000 and 50,000 years ago, when the sole inhabitants of Eurasia were the Neanderthals and other equally non-modern people as mentioned in this paper.
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