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“From hominins to humans: how sapiens became behaviourally modern”

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K. Sterelny. 2011. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, vol. 366, pp. 809–822.
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This paper contributes to a debate in the palaeoarchaeological community about the major time-lag between the origin of anatomically modern humans and the appearance of Continue reading →

“The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language”

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Steven Pinker. 2010. PNAS, vol. 107, suppl. 2, pp. 8993–8999.
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Although Darwin insisted that human intelligence could be fully explained by the theory of evolution, the codiscoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that abstract intelligence was of no use to ancestral humans and could only be explained by Continue reading →