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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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Lithics : macroscopic approaches to analysis

TL;DR: A brief introduction to lithic analysis can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the basics of stone tool production and debitage attributes of a stone tool and its relationships with other artifacts.
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Neanderthal acculturation in western Europe? A critical review of the evidence and its interpretation

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure, France) is not an exceptional case and is best explained by models of independent development that are supported by a reevaluation of Chatelperronian technology and by the patterns of chronological and geographical distribution of late Mousterian settlements.
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The emergence of language.

TL;DR: This book discusses the Emergence of Language from Serial Order and Procedural Memory, as well as statistical learning in Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Domains, and the role of language structure in this development.
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The prehistory of the mind: a search for the origins of art, religion and science

Steven Mithen
TL;DR: Mithen as discussed by the authors explores how an understanding of our ancestors and their development can illuminate our brains and behaviour today How do our minds work? When did language and religious beliefs first emerge? Why was there a cultural explosion of art and creativity with the arrival of modern humans?
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Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the northern Caucasus

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis places the two Neanderthals from the Caucasus and western Germany together in a clade that is distinct from modern humans, suggesting that their mtDNA types have not contributed to the modern human mtDNA pool.
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