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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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The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Heng Li,Mark Lipson,Iain Mathieson,Melissa Gymrek,Fernando Racimo,Mengyao Zhao,Mengyao Zhao,Mengyao Zhao,Niru Chennagiri,Niru Chennagiri,Niru Chennagiri,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Arti Tandon,Arti Tandon,Pontus Skoglund,Pontus Skoglund,Iosif Lazaridis,Iosif Lazaridis,Sriram Sankararaman,Sriram Sankararaman,Sriram Sankararaman,Qiaomei Fu,Qiaomei Fu,Qiaomei Fu,Nadin Rohland,Nadin Rohland,Gabriel Renaud,Yaniv Erlich,Thomas Willems,Carla Gallo,Jeffrey P. Spence,Yun S. Song,Yun S. Song,Giovanni Poletti,Francois Balloux,George van Driem,Peter de Knijff,Irene Gallego Romero,Aashish R. Jha,Doron M. Behar,Claudio M. Bravi,Cristian Capelli,Tor Hervig,Andrés Moreno-Estrada,Olga L. Posukh,Elena Balanovska,Oleg Balanovsky,Sena Karachanak-Yankova,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Draga Toncheva,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Chris Tyler-Smith,Yali Xue,M. Syafiq Abdullah,Andres Ruiz-Linares,Cynthia M. Beall,Anna Di Rienzo,Choongwon Jeong,Elena B. Starikovskaya,Ene Metspalu,Ene Metspalu,Jüri Parik,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Brenna M. Henn,Ugur Hodoglugil,Robert W. Mahley,Antti Sajantila,George Stamatoyannopoulos,Joseph Wee,Rita Khusainova,Elza Khusnutdinova,Sergey Litvinov,Sergey Litvinov,George Ayodo,David Comas,Michael F. Hammer,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,William Klitz,Cheryl A. Winkler,Damian Labuda,Michael J. Bamshad,Lynn B. Jorde,Sarah A. Tishkoff,W. Scott Watkins,Mait Metspalu,Stanislav Dryomov,Rem I. Sukernik,Lalji Singh,Lalji Singh,Kumarasamy Thangaraj,Svante Pääbo,Janet Kelso,Nick Patterson,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +104 more
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
Jung-Kyoo Choi,Samuel Bowles +1 more
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
Peter J. Richerson,Robert Boyd +1 more
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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The Uses of Style in Archaeology
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