Modern Human

A Modern Human is a Paleoanthropology that ...

• See: Cognition, Adult, Thailand, Paleoanthropology, Species, Homo Sapiens, Human Physical Appearance, Human Variability, Phenotype, Human, Archaic Humans, Middle Paleolithic.

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2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomically_modern_human Retrieved:2017-11-25.
  • In paleoanthropology, anatomically modern humans (AMH) or anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHS) are the members of the species Homo sapiens with an appearance consistent with the range of phenotypes in modern humans. Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) evolved from archaic humans in the Middle Paleolithic, at least 300,000 years ago. The emergence of anatomically modern humans marks the dawn of the species Homo sapiens, i.e. the species to which all humans alive today belong. Recent DNA analysis comparing the genome of a Stone Age Khoi-San skeleton with other modern African populations suggest that the Koi-San people diverged from the West African Mandinka people approximately 356,000 years ago, indicating the origin of modern humans is older than that date. The oldest fossil remains of anatomically modern humans are the Jebel Irhoud fossils from Morocco which are approximately 300,000 years old. Other important early modern finds include the Omo remains found in modern-day East Africa, which date to 195,000 years ago and include two partial skulls as well as arm, leg, foot and pelvis bones. Other fossils include the proposed Homo sapiens idaltu from Herto in Ethiopia that are almost 160,000 years old and the Skhul hominids from Israel, which are 90,000 years old. The oldest human remains from which an entire genome has been extracted belongs to Ust'-Ishim man, who lived about 45,000 years ago in Western Siberia. Behavioral modernity — a suite of changes in Homo sapiens behavior and cognition including abstract thinking, deep planning, symbolic behavior (e.g. art, ornamentation and music), exploitation of large game and blade technology — is evident from around 40,000–50,000 years ago and may have emerged abruptly then or may have arisen through gradual steps. However, it has been argued that Homo sapiens have been fully capable of modern behavior from the time they first evolved.

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