The Origin of Modern Human Behavior

By C. Henshilwood, Curtis W. Marean. Current Anthropology, 2003

706 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

1. Ian Cross
2. J. Faith
3. M. Haidle
4. Erle C. Ellis
5. M. Flinn
6. Curtis W. Marean
7. S. Churchill
8. C. Ward

In Cultural Studies

1. Ian Cross
2. J. Faith
3. Erle C. Ellis
4. M. Haidle
5. David C. Geary
6. Brian Hare
7. M. Flinn
8. Curtis W. Marean

In Paleontology

1. Ian Cross
2. J. Faith
3. M. Haidle
4. Erle C. Ellis
5. David C. Geary
6. Curtis W. Marean
7. S. Churchill
8. C. Ward

Citations in the corpus

• Musicality and the human capacity for culture (2008, background): “…to) the evolution of the modern vocal tract (see Morley, 2002), the emergence of fine manual control (including action sequencing and timing), the emergence of the ability to make use of symbolic forms of representation (see Henshilwood & Marean, 2003) and the emergence of the capacity to entrain.”
• Working‐Memory Capacity and the Evolution of Modern Cognitive Potential (2010, background): “…generally on the presence or absence of certain material traits, such as blade technology, bone and antler industry, art, personal ornaments, and burials (for a compilation and critical assessment, see Belfer-Cohen and Hovers 2010; Davidson 2010, both in this issue; Henshilwood and Marean 2003).”
• Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa (2014, background): “Anthropogenic hypotheses have fallen out of favor, in part because archeological research over the last several decades has shown the behavioral contrast betweenMSA and LSA humans proposed by Klein (1980, 1984b) to be untenable (e.g., Marean and Assefa, 1999; McBrearty and Brooks, 2000; Henshilwood ”
• An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Archaeologists have focused much of their attention on the evolution of a complex cognition (Coolidge & Wynn 2009, Henshilwood & Dubreuil 2011, Henshilwood & Marean 2003), and certainly it is central to the definition of human uniqueness.”
• Music and meaning, ambiguity and evolution (2005, background): “It would appear that none our predecessor species possessed anything like the degree of flexibility of modern humans in producing complex technologies, exploiting natural resources, and perhaps in managing social relations with each other; it is this intellectual and social flexibility (or, as Hens”
• Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. (2005, background): “The Upper Paleolithic/Late Stone Age bcreative explosion,Q continuing a long tradition, has generated an unparalleled expansion of information and individual expression, albeit within the restraints of collective meaning (Caspari & Lee, 2004; Henshilwood & Marean, 2003; McBrearty & Brooks, 2000).”
• The evolution of hominin diets : integrating approaches to the study of palaeolithic subsistence (2009, neutral): “…of a leap, as I am uncertain as to why a relative lack of resource intensification must equate with non-modern behavior during the MSA—it seems there are several other lines of evidence that would more directly speak to the cognitive abilities of MSA populations (e.g., Henshilwood and Marean 2003).”
• Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “Yet the role of genetics in explaining the emergence of modern human behaviors ;60 000 years ago in Africa has remained controversial (Henshilwood and Marean 2003, Mellars 2005, Nowell 2010, Fisher and Ridley 2013, Klein 2013, Sterelny 2014).”
• Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “…Watts 2009; Higham et al. 2012; Marean et al. 2007; McBrearty and Brooks 2000), as well as evidence for expanded diet breadth and innovations in subsistence strategies, expanded social net- works, and long-distance exchange (Bar-Yosef 2002; Henshilwood and Marean 2003; McBrearty and Brooks 2000).”
• Human- versus Artificial Intelligence (2021, background): “These cognitive abilities, or capacities, are probably less than 100 thousand years old, which may be quali fi ed as “ embryonal ” on the time scale of evolution, (e.g. Petraglia and Korisettar, 1998; McBrearty and Brooks, 2000; Henshilwood and Marean, 2003).”