The Morning of the Modern Mind. Kate Wong.
by Wong, Kate; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 36Health. Publisher: Scientific American, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Brain -- Evolution | Fossil hominids -- Origin | Human evolution | Neanderthals | Paleolithic periodDDC classification: 050 Summary: "By most accounts, the origin of anatomically modern Homo sapiens was a singularly African affair. In 2003 the unveiling of fossils found in Herto, Ethiopia, revealed that this emergence had occurred by 160,000 years ago. And this past February [2005] researchers announced that they had redated H. sapiens remains from another Ethiopian site, Omo Kibish, potentially pushing the origin of our species back to 195,000 years ago. Far less clear is when our kind became modern of mind. For the past two decades, the prevailing view has been that humanity underwent a behavioral revolution around 40,000 years ago." (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) The author discusses the emergence of the "modern mind" and relays that "controversial discoveries suggest that the roots of our vaunted intellect run far deeper than is commonly believed."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Morning of the Modern Mind, June 2005; pp. 86-95.
"By most accounts, the origin of anatomically modern Homo sapiens was a singularly African affair. In 2003 the unveiling of fossils found in Herto, Ethiopia, revealed that this emergence had occurred by 160,000 years ago. And this past February [2005] researchers announced that they had redated H. sapiens remains from another Ethiopian site, Omo Kibish, potentially pushing the origin of our species back to 195,000 years ago. Far less clear is when our kind became modern of mind. For the past two decades, the prevailing view has been that humanity underwent a behavioral revolution around 40,000 years ago." (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) The author discusses the emergence of the "modern mind" and relays that "controversial discoveries suggest that the roots of our vaunted intellect run far deeper than is commonly believed."
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