How Did Modern Humans Originate

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2284542
AutoresMilford H Wolpoff (0000-0002-6218-4963, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia), Rachel Caspari (0000-0003-3902-3632, Central Michigan University)
Año2012
Volumen19
Número2
Páginas1-6
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeneral Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1537-1727 • E-ISSN: 1939-3466
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1939-3466.2012.00008.x
OpenAlexW2045581972
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas18

People alive today and their immediate ancestors-modern humans-had multiple ancestors in the Middle Pleistocene. They did not originate as a new clade-the unique descendants of a recent, small African population. Therefore, the anatomical, behavioral, and genetic aspects of their modernity are not tied together in their origin. Instead, these key components of modernity have different origins and evolutionary pathways that can be understood as distinct, although interrelated, processes. Each process characterizes all living and recent human populations, and their interrelationship derives from a shared unifying factor: changes in human demographic history originating as the consequence of increased adult survivorship. Longer lifespans helped make humans modern

Biology · Clade · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Gene · Genealogy · Key (lock · Modernity · Phylogenetics · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · History · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Genetics