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| | Behavioral |
 | | Behavioral modernity Behavioral modernity is a term used in Africa (in opposition to earlier claims of its European orig... | | | Behavioral ecology Behavioral ecology is the study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, and the... | | | Behavioral imprinting Imprinting in child development is the process by which a baby learns who its mother and (in some... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/behavioral.html
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| | African bone tool discovery has important implications for evolution of human behavior |
| | The advent of bone tools was a major development in human tool technology and is considered by many archaeologists to be a key indicator of "behavioral modernity" in humans. | | | Henshilwood and Marean both point out that the Blombos Cave material is likely to be just the beginning of an extensive body of evidence for early behavioral modernity in Africa, as information from a number of current digs begins to be published. | | | This puts the behavioral evolution in step with the anatomical evolution. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-11/asu-abt110401.php
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| | Brain Evolution, Intellgence and Neural Inhibition |
| | That is, there appears to be no correlation whatever between the achievement in the human lineage of behavioral modernity and anatomical modernity. | | | That is, the emergence of anatomically modern Homo sapiens would have considerably predated the arrival of behaviorally modern humans. | | | But these behavioral innovations would have been established within a preexisting species. |
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http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n15/mente/evolution_intelligence.html
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| | Is Bead Find Proof Modern Thought Began in Africa? |
| | If the dates are correct, there was modern human behavior in Africa about 35,000 years earlier than previously thought, strengthening the argument that "behavioral modernity" evolved hand-in-hand with anatomical modernity. | | | One school of thought holds that while early human ancestors became anatomically modern while still in Africa, the development of modern behavioral traits lagged, emerging relatively suddenly only about 45,000 years ago. | | | Beads are "unambiguous examples of symbolic behavior," said Curtis Marean, one of the paper's presenters. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0331_040331_ostrichman.html
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| | Annual Meeting 2004 Abstracts - Saturday |
| | There has been a resurgence in interest in the emergence of behavioral modernity and whether or not symbol-based behavior is unique to anatomically modern humans or more widely shared amongst hominid species such as the Neandertals. | | | This paper will compare the evidence for the emergence of symbol-based behavior in Levantine record with data from these other regions in order to better understand the nature and timing of the emergence of behavioral modernity. | | | Despite this evidence for the rich ritual behavior seen on the mainland during the Neolithic is not overly abundant in Cyprus. |
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http://www.asor.org/AM/satabs04.html
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| | John Hawks reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard Klein and Blake Edgar |
| | The hypothesis most consistently argued by Klein elsewhere-that early modern humans had not attained behavioral modernity-is in many ways the theme of the book, established by the contrasting sites presented in the first chapter. | | | The arbitrary categorization of these anatomically modern humans as near-modern on the basis of their lack of UP/LSA cultural elements may focus the issue on behavior instead of anatomy, but if behavioral evolution could occur in early modern humans, then why not in Neandertals as well? | | | The descriptions of human evolution in most of the book support the hypothesis by establishing a slow pace for most behavioral changes and the lack of clear links between them and anatomical evolution. |
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http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/klein.html
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| | Self-organization course |
| | * Niklas Luhmann, “The Modernity of Science,” in: William Rasch (Ed.), Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Description of Modernity. | | | * Niklas Luhmann, “How Can the Mind Participate in Communication?” in: William Rasch (Ed.), Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Description of Modernity. | | | * Loet Leydesdorff (2000) “Luhmann, Habermas, and the Theory of Communication,” Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17(3) (2000) 273-288. |
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http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/course3/course.htm
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| | African Bone Tools Dispute Key Idea About Human Evolution |
| | Henshilwood is the lead author of a forthcoming study that argues, based on the bone tools and other recent discoveries, that "behavioral modernity" first evolved in Africa and has a much longer history than most archaeologists believe. | | | Until now, scientists had concluded that early human ancestors became anatomically modern while still in Africa but lagged in modern behavioral traits until after they migrated to Europe and elsewhere. | | | Many archaeologists regard the introduction of bone tools as a key indicator of "modern" behavior in humans. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/11/1108_bonetool.html
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| | African bone tool discovery has important implications for evolution of human behavior |
| | The advent of bone tools was a major development in human tool technology and is considered by many archaeologists to be a key indicator of "behavioral modernity" in humans. | | | According to Marean, bone tools have been seen as one of a variety of significant indicators of modern human behavior because of the greater skill and labor involved in producing them and the shift to more specialized tool manufacture that generally accompanies them. | | | Direct dating of these sterile yellow dune sediments and of burnt stone from the same layers as the bone tools using thermoluminescence methods is well advanced and the results are expected to be released shortly. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-11/asu-abt110401.php
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| | Neanderthals in the Levant: Behavioral Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity (New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology, Vol 1) > Book Donald Henry, Donald O. Henry |
| | Neanderthals in the Levant: Behavioral Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity (New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology, Vol 1) | | | After setting out the issues and debates about the emergence of modern humans and the role of the Levant in that debate, they focus on Tor Faraj, in southern Jordan, as a case study, and summarize their conclusions about social organization there during the Late Pleistocene. | | | They say that the biologic data suggest that Neanderthals were an offshoot of the human lineage, but the question of the degree to which archaic and modern populations differed in cognition and behavior still remains crucially important, because the differences may provide a key for understanding Neanderthal extinction. |
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http://books.idealo.com/prices/P826458033K0.html
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| | African Bone Tools Dispute Key Idea About Human Evolution |
| | This site from National Geographic details a study that argues, based on the bone tools and other recent discoveries, that "behavioral modernity" first evolved in Africa and has a much longer history than most archaeologists believe. | | | The study uses bone tools more than 70,000 years old as evidence that modern behavior evolved before humans migrated to Europe. |
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http://serc.carleton.edu/resources/14116.html
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| | New Books |
| | Beyond greed and fear : understanding behavioral finance and the psychology of investing / Hersh Shefrin. | | | Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity / Christine Froula. | | | Kidnapped : memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751, written by himself and now set forth / by Robert Louis Stevenson. |
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http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/newbooks.html
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