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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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Uranium-series dating of lacustrine limestones from pan deposits with final Acheulian assemblage at Rooidam, Kimberley district, South Africa

TL;DR: In this article, the Acheulian artifacts from sedimentary pan deposits at Rooidam, near Kimberley, South Africa, have been dated by 230 Th 234 U and 231 Pa 235 U methods, indicating a minimum age of about 200,000 yr B.P.
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Tephrochronology of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge: An application of laser-fusion dating to calibrating biological and climatic change

TL;DR: In this article, geochronological data indicate that hominid-bearing deposits of middle to upper Bed I at Olduvai Gorge comprise an extremely brief interval of time, from about 1.80 to 1.75 Ma.
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Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts.

TL;DR: In this article, human occupation on the lakeshore barrier system at Lake Mungo involved aquatic harvesting (fish and shellfish) associated with human burials before the onset of the PCD [lake dry pelletal clay dunes] deposition.
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A Comparison of Kua (Botswana) and Hadza (Tanzania) Bow and Arrow Hunting

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize some of the technological, organizational, and environmental factors that are likely to influence the design, manufacture, and use of bow-hunting equipment by two groups of contemporary hunter-gatherers in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Speciation and Morphological Differentiation in the Genus Lemur

TL;DR: The event of speciation, the establishment of definitive genetic isolation between sister populations, remains the “black box” of genetics, and by extension of the systematic sciences, which underline how difficult it is to know whether definitive genetic disruption between closely related populations has actually occurred.
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