"Behavioral modernity” is the phrase some evolutionary theorists use to refer to the point in time at which our ancestors developed all of the traits that make humans utterly unique relative to other ...

One of the major issues in palaeoanthropology and archaeology is when our hominin ancestors became like us. Humans living today have developed the capacity for ‘modern behavior'. Modern behavior can ...

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A key to understanding behavioral modernity The team of researchers is hopeful that the study will inspire new discussions on the multifunctionality of ochre and its integration into both the symbolic ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct. Yet how and when Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa, ...

Jan. 25 (UPI) --New analysis suggests the development of the modern human brain was a late chapter in the evolutionary history of the Homo sapien. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...

"And a conviction is growing among some archaeologists that there was no sweeping transformation to “behavioral modernity” in our species’ recent past." Heh? I've been in anthropology for forty years, ...

Homo sapiens fossils demonstrate a gradual evolution of the human brain towards its modern globular shape. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ...