Behavioral Modernity in Retrospect.
This paper reviews the debate about behavioral modernity in our species, listing counterexamples to the thesis that there was a dramatic change to the minds of Cro-Magnon sapiens in Europe in the Upper Paleolithic. It is argued that we were probably behaviorally modern from about 150,000 years ago,...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 221 - 233 |
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