Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1567, 2011, Pages 1060-1069

  d'Errico, Francesco ^a,b   Stringer, Chris B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; Middle Stone Age; Modernity; Mousterian; Neanderthals; Symbolism

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COGNITION; CULTURAL CHANGE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MODERNITY; MOUSTERIAN; MUTATION; NEANDERTHAL; STONE AGE; SYMBOLISM;

AFRICA; ASIA; EUROPE;

HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; TOOL USE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959500283     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0340     Document Type: Article

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