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The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity
Abstract
Two contradictory theories of human cognitive evolution have been developed to model how, when, and among what hominid groups behavioral modernity emerged. The first model, which has long been the dominant paradigm, links these behavioral innovations to a cultural “revolution” by anatomically modern humans in Europe at around 40,000 years ago, coinciding with the first arrival of our species in this region.1–4 According to this model, the sudden and explosive character of this change is demonstrated by the appearance in the archeological record of previously unseen carvings, personal ornaments, musical instruments, depictions on cave walls, and new stone and bone technology. A variant of this model sees behavioral modernity resulting from a rapid biological change, a brain mutation producing no apparent change in skull anatomy, which occurred in Europe or, more probably, in Africa at ca. 50,000 years ago.56.
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- D'Errico, F.
- Venue
- Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 188-202
- ISSN
- 1060-1538 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-6505
- OpenAlex
- W2151424167
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- 532
- References
- 83
- FWCI
- 99.57
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- en
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