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When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2609" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/18/when-did-we-become-fully-human-what-fossils-and-dna-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-modern-intelligence/" target="_blank"><strong>When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence - Singularity Hub</strong></a></p><p></p><p>When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern <em>Homo sapiens</em>, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology—tools, artifacts, cave art—suggest that complex technology and cultures, “behavioral modernity,” evolved more recently: 50,000 to 65,000 years ago.</p><p></p><p>Some <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060845503/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i24" target="_blank">scientists</a> interpret this as suggesting the earliest <em>Homo sapiens</em> weren’t entirely modern. Yet the different data tracks different things. Skulls and genes tell us about brains, artifacts about culture. Our brains probably became modern before our cultures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2609, member: 1"] [URL='https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/18/when-did-we-become-fully-human-what-fossils-and-dna-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-modern-intelligence/'][B]When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence - Singularity Hub[/B][/URL] [B][/B] When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern [I]Homo sapiens[/I], evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology—tools, artifacts, cave art—suggest that complex technology and cultures, “behavioral modernity,” evolved more recently: 50,000 to 65,000 years ago. Some [URL='https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060845503/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i24']scientists[/URL] interpret this as suggesting the earliest [I]Homo sapiens[/I] weren’t entirely modern. Yet the different data tracks different things. Skulls and genes tell us about brains, artifacts about culture. Our brains probably became modern before our cultures. [/QUOTE]
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