The emergence of human uniqueness: Characters underlying behavioral modernity

By K. Hill, Michael D Barton, A. Hurtado. 2009

356 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. D. Krupp
2. Brian Hare
3. Curtis W. Marean
4. Erle C. Ellis
5. Pat Barclay
6. Stefan Pfattheicher
7. Johannes Keller

In Social Psychology

1. D. Krupp
2. Brian Hare
3. Curtis W. Marean
4. Erle C. Ellis
5. A. Boyette
6. Pat Barclay
7. S. Churchill
8. B. Hewlett

In Sociology and Political Science

1. D. Krupp
2. J. Riel‐Salvatore
3. Gabriel M Popescu
4. Brian Hare
5. J. Marty Anderies
6. Curtis W. Marean
7. Erle C. Ellis
8. A. Boyette

Citations in the corpus

• An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “This combination of new adaptations in the African lineage created a dominant species that is unique beyond the truism that “all species are unique” (Hill et al 2009).”
• Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia (2011, background): “” Important to understanding the dynamics of Upper Pleistocene human ecology is a broad and rapidly growing consensus that a large portion of human behavior is the phenotypic expression of a cumulative body of information transmitted between individuals by social learning rather than genes— often gl”
• Teaching in Hunter-Gatherers (2018, background): “Teaching may have been central to the latter, and subsequently contributed greatly to the coevolution of the other facets of human uniqueness (see also Hill et al. 2009).”
• Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “Under this model, high social tolerance was positively selected because of the payoffs inherent in cultural transmission and cooperation, two human traits that underlie behavioral modernity (Hill, Barton, and Hurtado 2009).”
• Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…of the suite of modern human behaviors (Klein 2013), which include symbolic inscriptions, lithic projectile point weapons, personal ornaments, rapid changes in tools and technologies, more highly struc- tured settlements, and long-distance trade (Mellars 2005, Hill et al. 2009, Nowell 2010).”
• The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account (2014, background): “The social life of living hunter-gatherers is certainly heavily institutionalized (Hill et al., 2009).”