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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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DNA and Human Origins

TL;DR: Phylogenetic reconstruction is a necessary step in the process of understand­ ing human biological evolution, and molecular anthropologists approach this step by making a number of assumptions about naturally occurring genetic poly­ morphisms in populations that can be tested both quantitatively and quali­ tatively.
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Changing fashions in the Middle Stone Age: the stone artefact sequence from Klasies River main site, South Africa

TL;DR: The analysis of Middle Stone Age artefact assemblages from the 1984-8 Deacon excavation of Klasies River main site on the southern Cape coast of South Africa emphasizes its importance as a source of information on the Late Pleistocene period as discussed by the authors.
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Les restes humains de la Grotte de Dar-es-Soltane II (Maroc). Campagne 1975

TL;DR: L'Homme de Dar-es-Soltane, intermediaire sur le plan morphologique evolutif entre ces deux formes ne serait-il pas alors un representant of the culture aterienne ?
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Human Behavioral Differences in Southern Africa During the Later Pleistocene1

TL;DR: In this article, an examination of four Middle Stone Age archaeological occurrences with specific attention to details of paleo-environmental conditions (determined from archaeological data and by inference from the contemporary setting) and to the composition of stone artifact assemblages from each, suggests that each site is strategically located for the exploitation of more than one micro-environment and that the nature of exploitation of specific plant and animal resources may be largely responsible for differences in lithic inventory between the sites.
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