Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

By Adam Powell, S. Shennan, Mark George Thomas. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Anthropology, Paleontology, Sociology and Political Science

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An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation (2014, background): “Thus, the results of the experiment support the proposed link between population size and cultural accumulation put forward by Shennan (2001), Henrich (2004), Powell et al. (2009) and others.”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…of cultural information (Shennan 2001, Powell et al. 2009, Derex et al. 2013), the emergence of exchange-based economies (Sterelny 2014), increased intergroup conflict or cooperation (Mellars 2005, Stiner and Kuhn 2006), and by other factors and combinations of factors (Powell et al. 2009).”
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “While the commentators raise a number of good points that add to discourse about the evolution of modern human behavior, we see four main issues that emerge from the responses: (1) the use of browridge morphology as a reflection of facial masculinity may be problematic, given that many modern human ”
Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia (2011, methodology): “We do not model these consequences here, but other modeling work is potentially relevant (Kline and Boyd 2010; Powell et al. 2009; Premo and Hublin 2009; Shennan 2001); the results presented here offer additional reasons to continue and expand on these pioneering studies.”
Learning in Lithic Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid “Toolmaking” Niche (2014, background): “…repertoire that arises from unlucky accidents to members holding unique skills, and of the potential for redundancy in information storage within larger and betterconnected groups to buffer that risk and facilitate the accumulation of knowledge capital (e.g., Henrich 2004; Powell et al. 2009).”
Malthusian Reinforcement Learning (2018, background): “Rather, considerable evidence points to a variety of extrinsic motivation mechanisms as the main drivers of human migration including climate change [11, 37] and demographic expansion [26, 31].”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, methodology): “Both content biases and guided variation are likely to involve the same cognitive operations, but as Boyd and Richerson (1985) showed, they have different evolutionary dynamics: the strength of selection-like content biases, like selection in general, depends on the amount of variation in the…”
Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa (2014, background): “in models of the emergence of complex culture (Powell et al., 2009).”
The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic (2011, background): “While effective population sizes may well have been small (Briggs et al. 2009; Klein 2008; Powell et al. 2009), these estimates ignore the organization of anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals into larger social communities.”
Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites (2013, background): “This stimulated cultural change in the Middle Stone Age to the extent that it even benefited the survival rate of individuals and their groups (Powell et al. 2009).”
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “…who point to a ‘flickering’ pattern to the African evidence, likely in response to the potential for complicated technologies to be subject to loss due to changes in population size and network connections being reduced during glacial climate phases (D'Errico & Stringer 2011, Powell et al 2009).”
The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, background): “Insofar as social selection processes channeled variation and intensified the pace of change, we might expect some increase in the rates of local cultural evolution in nonlinguistic domains also (Powell, Shennan, and Thomas 2009; Shennan 2001).”
Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene (2013, background): “…before (Kingdon, 1993; Foley and Lahr, 1997) morphological modernity, and the appearance of traditional indicators of behavioural modernity in the archaeological recordmaymark demographic or social changes (Shennan, 2001; Petraglia et al., 2009; Powell et al., 2009), rather than cognitive ones.”