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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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Dating pleistocene archeological sites by protein diagenesis in ostrich eggshell.

TL;DR: Eggshells of the African ostrich have been shown by laboratory simulation experiments to retain their indigenous organic matrix residues during diagenesis far better than any other calcified tissue yet studied and have been calibrated for local temperature effects and used to estimate the age range of stratified archeological sites.
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40Ar/39Ar Dating into the Historical Realm: Calibration Against Pliny the Younger

TL;DR: In this paper, laser incremental heating of sanidine from the pumice deposited by the Plinian eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. yielded a 40Ar/39Ar isochron age of 1925 ± 94 years ago.
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Dating of the basal aurignacian sandwich at Abric Romaní (Catalunya, Spain) by radiocarbon and Uranium-Series

TL;DR: Abric Romani, a rock shelter located near Barcelona, Spain, contains a charcoal-bearing basal Aurignacian occupation level sandwiched between beds of moss-generated carbonate.
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Earliest modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell

TL;DR: In this paper, the Howiesons Poort horizon is bracketed by limiting dates of 56 and 80 ka, and most likely centered on 66±5 ka, based on the extent of isoleucine epimerization in associated ostrich eggshells.
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