By modern humans, we mean members of our own species, Homo sapiens, who shared with us important anatomical features (skull shape and size) and behavioral attributes (use of blades, bone tools, pigments, burial goods, art, trade, hunting, and varied environmental resources).
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The emergence of humans: The coevolution of intelligence and longevity with intergenerational transfers. Hillard S. Kaplana,b and; Arthur J. Robsonc ...
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THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANS 1 3 1; THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANS; Prolegomenon There might very well be nothing; nor anyone. No one to notice that there is nothing, and to consider that natural. But that there is something, and, whatever it may be, the strange thing!
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Membersof the family Hominidae (humans and australopithecines) ... a prediction of the multiregional evolution hypothesis that certain morphological features will be characteristic of particular geographical locations, and will be present from early Homo erectus times through the emergence of modern Homo sapiens...
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S292 Explaining the Emergence of Humans ... PART THREE: Humans as Animals; Unit 11: Bodies, Size, and Shape; Unit 12: Bodies, Brains and Energy; Unit 13: Bodies, Behavior and Social Structure; Unit 14: Nonhuman Models of Early Hominines; PART FOUR: Hominine Beginnings;
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The finding supports a novel theory advanced by Dr. Richard Klein, an archaeologist at Stanford University, who argues that the emergence of behaviorally modern humans about 50,000 years ago was set off by a major genetic change, most probably the acquisition of language.
www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/science/15LANG.html
Middle and Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers The Emergence of Modern Humans, The Mesolithic ... Lesson Objectives: Compare models of Neanderthal and early modern humans and their lifestyles based on cultural evidence; understand political contexts; understand the Upper Paleolithic lifestyles and interpretations of art;
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Two striking differences between humans and our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, are the size of our brains (larger by a factor of three or four) and our life span (longer by a factor of about two).
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/12122210
What is considered to be evidence for the emergence of modern humans depends on what is meant by the emergence of modern humans, and on what theories about this emergence that people hold. In other words, only a theoretical context can give meaning to evidence.
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"It pushes back the beginning of anatomically modern humans," says geologist Frank Brown, a co-author of the study and dean of the University of Utah's College of Mines and Earth Sciences. ... Significance of an Earlier Emergence of Homo sapiens...
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