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Early modern human (EMH) or anatomically modern

human (AMH)[1] are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens
(the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically
consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary
humans from extinct archaic human species. This distinction is
useful especially for times and regions where anatomically
modern and archaic humans co-existed, for example, in
Paleolithic Europe. Among the oldest known remains of Homo
sapiens are those found at the Omo-Kibish I archaeological site
in south-western Ethiopia, dating to about 233,000[2] to
196,000 years ago,[3] the Florisbad site in South Africa, dating
to about 259,000 years ago, and the Jebel Irhoud site in
Morocco, dated about 315,000 years ago. 100 to 80 thousand year old Skhul V
from Israel
Extinct species of the genus Homo include Homo erectus
(extant from roughly 2 to 0.1 million years ago) and a number
of other species (by some authors considered subspecies of either H. sapiens or H. erectus). The
divergence of the lineage leading to H. sapiens out of ancestral H. erectus (or an intermediate
species such as Homo antecessor) is estimated to have occurred in Africa roughly 500,000 years
ago. The earliest fossil evidence of early modern humans appears in Africa around 300,000 years
ago, with the earliest genetic splits among modern people, according to some evidence, dating to
around the same time.[4][5][note 1][8] Sustained archaic human admixture with modern humans is
known to have taken place both in Africa and (following the recent Out-Of-Africa expansion) in
Eurasia, between about 100,000 and 30,000 years ago.[9]

Name and taxonomy

The binomial name Homo sapiens was coined by Linnaeus, 1758.[10] The Latin noun homō
(genitive hominis) means "human being", while the participle sapiēns means "discerning, wise,
sensible".

The species was initially thought to have emerged from a predecessor within the genus Homo
around 300,000 to 200,000 years ago.[note 2] A problem with the morphological classification of
"anatomically modern" was that it would not have included certain extant populations. For this
reason, a lineage-based (cladistic) definition of H. sapiens has been suggested, in which H. sapiens
would by definition refer to the modern human lineage following the split from the Neanderthal
lineage. Such a cladistic definition would extend the age of H. sapiens to over 500,000 years.[note 3]

Estimates for the split between the Homo sapiens line and combined Neanderthal/Denisovan line
range from between 503,000 and 565,000 years ago;[15] between 550,000 and 765,000 years
ago;[16] and (based on rates of dental evolution) possibly more than 800,000 years ago.[17]

Extant human populations have historically been divided into subspecies, but since around the
1980s all extant groups have tended to be subsumed into a single species, H. sapiens, avoiding
division into subspecies altogether.[note 4]

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Some sources show Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis) as a subspecies (H. sapiens

neanderthalensis).[21][22] Similarly, the discovered specimens of the H. rhodesiensis species have
been classified by some as a subspecies (H. sapiens rhodesiensis), although it remains more
common to treat these last two as separate species within the genus Homo rather than as
subspecies within H. sapiens.[23]

All humans are considered to be a part of the subspecies H. sapiens sapiens,[24] a designation
which has been a matter of debate since a species is usually not given a subspecies category unless
there is evidence of multiple distinct subspecies.[24]

Age and speciation process

Derivation from H. erectus

The divergence of the lineage that would lead to H. sapiens out

of archaic human varieties derived from H. erectus, is
estimated as having taken place over 500,000 years ago
(marking the split of the H. sapiens lineage from ancestors
shared with other known archaic hominins).[8][5] But the oldest
split among modern human populations (such as the Khoisan
split from other groups) has been recently dated to between
350,000 and 260,000 years ago,[25][26] and the earliest known
examples of H. sapiens fossils also date to about that period, Schematic representation of the
including the Jebel Irhoud remains from Morocco (ca. 300,000 emergence of H. sapiens from
or 350–280,000 years ago),[27] the Florisbad Skull from South earlier species of Homo. The
Africa (ca. 259,000 years ago), and the Omo remains from horizontal axis represents
Ethiopia (ca. 195,000, or, as more recently dated, ca. 233,000 geographic location; the vertical axis
years ago).[28][29][30][31][2] represents time in millions of years
ago (blue areas denote the
An mtDNA study in 2019 proposed an origin of modern presence of a certain species of
humans in Botswana (and a Khoisan split) of around 200,000 Homo at a given time and place;
years.[32] However, this proposal has been widely criticized by late survival of robust
scholars,[33][34][35] with the recent evidence overall (genetic, australopithecines alongside Homo
fossil, and archaeological) supporting an origin for H. sapiens is indicated in purple). Based on
Springer (2012), Homo
approximately 100,000 years earlier and in a broader region of
heidelbergensis[7] is shown as
Africa than the study proposes.[35]
diverging into Neanderthals,
In September 2019, scientists proposed that the earliest H. Denisovans and H. sapiens. With
sapiens (and last common human ancestor to modern humans) the rapid expansion of H. sapiens
arose between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago through a after 60 kya, Neanderthals,
Denisovans and unspecified archaic
merging of populations in East and South Africa.[36][4]
African hominins are shown as
An alternative suggestion defines H. sapiens cladistically as again subsumed into the H. sapiens
including the lineage of modern humans since the split from lineage.
the lineage of Neanderthals, roughly 500,000 to 800,000 years
ago.

The time of divergence between archaic H. sapiens and ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans
caused by a genetic bottleneck of the latter was dated at 744,000 years ago, combined with
repeated early admixture events and Denisovans diverging from Neanderthals 300 generations
after their split from H. sapiens, as calculated by Rogers et al. (2017).[37]

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The derivation of a comparatively homogeneous

single species of H. sapiens from more diverse
varieties of archaic humans (all of which were
descended from the early dispersal of H. erectus
some 1.8 million years ago) was debated in terms of
two competing models during the 1980s: "recent
African origin" postulated the emergence of H.
sapiens from a single source population in Africa,
which expanded and led to the extinction of all
other human varieties, while the "multiregional
evolution" model postulated the survival of regional
forms of archaic humans, gradually converging into
the modern human varieties by the mechanism of
clinal variation, via genetic drift, gene flow and
selection throughout the Pleistocene.[38] A model of the phylogeny of H. sapiens during the
Middle Paleolithic. The horizontal axis represents
Since the 2000s, the availability of data from geographic location; the vertical axis represents
archaeogenetics and population genetics has led to
time in thousands of years ago.[note 1]
the emergence of a much more detailed picture, Neanderthals, Denisovans and unspecified
intermediate between the two competing scenarios archaic African hominins are shown as admixed
outlined above: The recent Out-of-Africa expansion into the H. sapiens lineage. In addition, prehistoric
accounts for the predominant part of modern Archaic Human and Eurasian admixture events in
human ancestry, while there were also significant modern African populations are indicated.
admixture events with regional archaic
humans. [39][40]

Since the 1970s, the Omo remains, originally dated to some 195,000 years ago, have often been
taken as the conventional cut-off point for the emergence of "anatomically modern humans". Since
the 2000s, the discovery of older remains with comparable characteristics, and the discovery of
ongoing hybridization between "modern" and "archaic" populations after the time of the Omo
remains, have opened up a renewed debate on the age of H. sapiens in journalistic
publications.[41][42][43][44][45] H. s. idaltu, dated to 160,000 years ago, has been postulated as an
extinct subspecies of H. sapiens in 2003.[46][24] H. neanderthalensis, which became extinct about
40,000 years ago, was also at one point considered to be a subspecies, H. s. neanderthalensis.[24]

H. heidelbergensis, dated 600,000 to 300,000 years ago, has long been thought to be a likely
candidate for the last common ancestor of the Neanderthal and modern human lineages. However,
genetic evidence from the Sima de los Huesos fossils published in 2016 seems to suggest that H.
heidelbergensis in its entirety should be included in the Neanderthal lineage, as "pre-Neanderthal"
or "early Neanderthal", while the divergence time between the Neanderthal and modern lineages
has been pushed back to before the emergence of H. heidelbergensis, to close to 800,000 years
ago, the approximate time of disappearance of H. antecessor.[47][48]

Early Homo sapiens

The term Middle Paleolithic is intended to cover the time between the first emergence of H.
sapiens (roughly 300,000 years ago) and the period held by some to mark the emergence of full
behavioral modernity (roughly by 50,000 years ago, corresponding to the start of the Upper
Paleolithic).

Many of the early modern human finds, like those of Jebel Irhoud, Omo, Herto, Florisbad, Skhul,
and Peștera cu Oase exhibit a mix of archaic and modern traits.[49][50][27] Skhul V, for example,
has prominent brow ridges and a projecting face. However, the brain case is quite rounded and

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distinct from that of the Neanderthals and is similar to the brain case of modern humans. It is
uncertain whether the robust traits of some of the early modern humans like Skhul V reflects
mixed ancestry or retention of older traits.[51][52]

The "gracile" or lightly built skeleton of anatomically modern humans has been connected to a
change in behavior, including increased cooperation and "resource transport".[53][54]

There is evidence that the characteristic human brain development, especially the prefrontal
cortex, was due to "an exceptional acceleration of metabolome evolution ... paralleled by a drastic
reduction in muscle strength. The observed rapid metabolic changes in brain and muscle, together
with the unique human cognitive skills and low muscle performance, might reflect parallel
mechanisms in human evolution."[55] The Schöningen spears and their correlation of finds are
evidence that complex technological skills already existed 300,000 years ago, and are the first
obvious proof of an active (big game) hunt. H. heidelbergensis already had intellectual and
cognitive skills like anticipatory planning, thinking and acting that so far have only been attributed
to modern man.[56][57]

The ongoing admixture events within anatomically modern human populations make it difficult to
estimate the age of the matrilinear and patrilinear most recent common ancestors of modern
populations (Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam). Estimates of the age of Y-
chromosomal Adam have been pushed back significantly with the discovery of an ancient Y-
chromosomal lineage in 2013, to likely beyond 300,000 years ago.[note 5] There have, however,
been no reports of the survival of Y-chromosomal or mitochondrial DNA clearly deriving from
archaic humans (which would push back the age of the most recent patrilinear or matrilinear
ancestor beyond 500,000 years).[59][60][61]

Fossil teeth found at Qesem Cave (Israel) and dated to between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago
have been compared to the dental material from the younger (120,000–80,000 years ago) Skhul
and Qafzeh hominins.[note 6]

Dispersal and archaic admixture

Dispersal of early H. sapiens begins soon after its
emergence, as evidenced by the North African Jebel
Irhoud finds (dated to around 315,000 years
ago).[27][30] There is indirect evidence for H.
sapiens presence in West Asia around 270,000
years ago.[63]

The Florisbad Skull from Florisbad, South Africa,

dated to about 259,000 years ago, has also been Overview map of the peopling of the world by
classified as representing early H. anatomically modern humans (numbers indicate
sapiens. [28][29][31][4]
dates in thousands of years ago [ka])

In September 2019, scientists proposed that the

earliest H. sapiens (and last common human ancestor to modern humans) arose between 350,000
and 260,000 years ago through a merging of populations in East and South Africa.[36][4]

Among extant populations, the Khoi-San (or "Capoid") hunters-gatherers of Southern Africa may
represent the human population with the earliest possible divergence within the group Homo
sapiens sapiens. Their separation time has been estimated in a 2017 study to be between 350 and
260,000 years ago, compatible with the estimated age of early H. sapiens. The study states that the
deep split-time estimation of 350 to 260 thousand years ago is consistent with the archaeological

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estimate for the onset of the Middle Stone Age across sub-Saharan Africa and coincides with
archaic H. sapiens in southern Africa represented by, for example, the Florisbad skull dating to
259 (± 35) thousand years ago.[6]

H. s. idaltu, found at Middle Awash in Ethiopia, lived about 160,000 years ago,[64] and H. sapiens
lived at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia about 233,000-195,000 years ago.[65][2] Two fossils from Guomde,
Kenya, dated to at least (and likely more than) 180,000 years ago[28] and (more precisely) to 300–
270,000 years ago,[4] have been tentatively assigned to H. sapiens and similarities have been
noted between them and the Omo Kibbish remains.[28] Fossil evidence for modern human
presence in West Asia is ascertained for 177,000 years ago,[66] and disputed fossil evidence
suggests expansion as far as East Asia by 120,000 years ago.[67][68]

In July 2019, anthropologists reported the discovery of 210,000 year old remains of a H. sapiens
and 170,000 year old remains of a H. neanderthalensis in Apidima Cave, Peloponnese, Greece,
more than 150,000 years older than previous H. sapiens finds in Europe.[69][70][71]

A significant dispersal event, within Africa and to West Asia, is associated with the African
megadroughts during MIS 5, beginning 130,000 years ago.[72] A 2011 study located the origin of
basal population of contemporary human populations at 130,000 years ago, with the Khoi-San
representing an "ancestral population cluster" located in southwestern Africa (near the coastal
border of Namibia and Angola).[73]

While early modern human expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

before 130 kya persisted, early expansion to North Africa and
Asia appears to have mostly disappeared by the end of MIS5
(75,000 years ago), and is known only from fossil evidence and
from archaic admixture. Eurasia was re-populated by early
modern humans in the so-called "recent out-of-Africa
migration" post-dating MIS5, beginning around 70,000–
50,000 years ago.[75][76][77][78] In this expansion, bearers of
mt-DNA haplogroup L3 left East Africa, likely reaching Arabia
via the Bab-el-Mandeb, and in the Great Coastal Migration
spread to South Asia, Maritime South Asia and Oceania Layer sequence at Ksar Akil in the
between 65,000 and 50,000 years ago,[79][80][81][82] while Levantine corridor, and discovery of
Europe, East and North Asia were reached by about 45,000 two fossils of Homo sapiens, dated
years ago. Some evidence suggests that an early wave humans to 40,800 to 39,200 years BP for
may have reached the Americas by about 40,000–25,000 years "Egbert",[74] and 42,400–41,700 BP
ago. for "Ethelruda".[74]

Evidence for the overwhelming contribution of this "recent"

(L3-derived) expansion to all non-African populations was established based on mitochondrial
DNA, combined with evidence based on physical anthropology of archaic specimens, during the
1990s and 2000s,[note 7][84] and has also been supported by Y DNA and autosomal DNA.[78] The
assumption of complete replacement has been revised in the 2010s with the discovery of admixture
events (introgression) of populations of H. sapiens with populations of archaic humans over the
period of between roughly 100,000 and 30,000 years ago, both in Eurasia and in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Neanderthal admixture, in the range of 1–4%, is found in all modern populations outside of
Africa, including in Europeans, Asians, Papua New Guineans, Australian Aboriginals, Native
Americans, and other non-Africans.[85][39] This suggests that interbreeding between Neanderthals
and anatomically modern humans took place after the recent "out of Africa" migration, likely
between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago.[86][87][88] Recent admixture analyses have added to the
complexity, finding that Eastern Neanderthals derive up to 2% of their ancestry from anatomically
modern humans who left Africa some 100 kya.[89] The extent of Neanderthal admixture (and
introgression of genes acquired by admixture) varies significantly between contemporary racial
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groups, being absent in Africans, intermediate in Europeans and highest in East Asians. Certain
genes related to UV-light adaptation introgressed from Neanderthals have been found to have been
selected for in East Asians specifically from 45,000 years ago until around 5,000 years ago.[90] The
extent of archaic admixture is of the order of about 1% to 4% in Europeans and East Asians, and
highest among Melanesians (the last also having Denisova hominin admixture at 4% to 6% in
addition to neanderthal admixture).[39][51] Cumulatively, about 20% of the Neanderthal genome is
estimated to remain present spread in contemporary populations.[91]

In September 2019, scientists reported the computerized determination, based on 260 CT scans, of
a virtual skull shape of the last common human ancestor to modern humans/H. sapiens,
representative of the earliest modern humans, and suggested that modern humans arose between
350,000 and 260,000 years ago through a merging of populations in East and South Africa while
North-African fossils may represent a population which introgressed into Neandertals during the
LMP.[36][4]

Anatomy
Generally, modern humans are more lightly built (or more
"gracile") than the more "robust" archaic humans.
Nevertheless, contemporary humans exhibit high variability in
many physiological traits, and may exhibit remarkable
"robustness". There are still a number of physiological details
which can be taken as reliably differentiating the physiology of
Neanderthals vs. anatomically modern humans.

Anatomical modernity

The term "anatomically modern humans" (AMH) is used with

varying scope depending on context, to distinguish
"anatomically modern" Homo sapiens from archaic humans
such as Neanderthals and Middle and Lower Paleolithic
hominins with transitional features intermediate between H. Known archaeological remains of
anatomically modern humans in
erectus, Neanderthals and early AMH called archaic Homo
Europe and Africa, directly dated,
sapiens.[92] In a convention popular in the 1990s,
calibrated carbon dates as of
Neanderthals were classified as a subspecies of H. sapiens, as
2013.[74]
H. s. neanderthalensis, while AMH (or European early modern
humans, EEMH) was taken to refer to "Cro-Magnon" or H. s.
sapiens. Under this nomenclature (Neanderthals considered H.
sapiens), the term "anatomically modern Homo sapiens" (AMHS) has also been used to refer to
EEMH ("Cro-Magnons").[93] It has since become more common to designate Neanderthals as a
separate species, H. neanderthalensis, so that AMH in the European context refers to H. sapiens,
but the question is by no means resolved.[note 8]

In this more narrow definition of H. sapiens, the subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu, discovered in
2003, also falls under the umbrella of "anatomically modern".[95] The recognition of H. sapiens
idaltu as a valid subspecies of the anatomically modern human lineage would justify the
description of contemporary humans with the subspecies name Homo sapiens sapiens.[96]
However, biological anthropologist Chris Stringer does not consider idaltu distinct enough within
H. sapiens to warrant its own subspecies designation.[97][28]

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A further division of AMH into "early" or "robust" vs. "post-glacial" or "gracile" subtypes has since
been used for convenience. The emergence of "gracile AMH" is taken to reflect a process towards a
smaller and more fine-boned skeleton beginning around 50,000–30,000 years ago.[98]

Braincase anatomy

The cranium lacks a pronounced occipital bun in

the neck, a bulge that anchored considerable neck
muscles in Neanderthals. Modern humans, even the
earlier ones, generally have a larger fore-brain than
the archaic people, so that the brain sits above
rather than behind the eyes. This will usually
(though not always) give a higher forehead, and
reduced brow ridge. Early modern people and some
living people do however have quite pronounced
brow ridges, but they differ from those of archaic Anatomical comparison of skulls of H. sapiens
forms by having both a supraorbital foramen or (left) and H. neanderthalensis (right)
notch, forming a groove through the ridge above (in Cleveland Museum of Natural History)
each eye.[99] This splits the ridge into a central part Features compared are the braincase shape,
and two distal parts. In current humans, often only forehead, browridge, nasal bone, projection,
the central section of the ridge is preserved (if it is cheek bone angulation, chin and occipital contour
preserved at all). This contrasts with archaic
humans, where the brow ridge is pronounced and
unbroken.[100]

Modern humans commonly have a steep, even vertical forehead whereas their predecessors had
foreheads that sloped strongly backwards.[101] According to Desmond Morris, the vertical forehead
in humans plays an important role in human communication through eyebrow movements and
forehead skin wrinkling.[102]

Brain size in both Neanderthals and AMH is significantly larger on average (but overlapping in
range) than brain size in H. erectus. Neanderthal and AMH brain sizes are in the same range, but
there are differences in the relative sizes of individual brain areas, with significantly larger visual
systems in Neanderthals than in AMH.[103][note 9]

Jaw anatomy

Compared to archaic people, anatomically modern humans have smaller, differently shaped
teeth.[106][107] This results in a smaller, more receded dentary, making the rest of the jaw-line
stand out, giving an often quite prominent chin. The central part of the mandible forming the chin
carries a triangularly shaped area forming the apex of the chin called the mental trigon, not found
in archaic humans.[108] Particularly in living populations, the use of fire and tools requires fewer
jaw muscles, giving slender, more gracile jaws. Compared to archaic people, modern humans have
smaller, lower faces.

Body skeleton structure

The body skeletons of even the earliest and most robustly built modern humans were less robust
than those of Neanderthals (and from what little we know from Denisovans), having essentially
modern proportions. Particularly regarding the long bones of the limbs, the distal bones (the
radius/ulna and tibia/fibula) are nearly the same size or slightly shorter than the proximal bones

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(the humerus and femur). In ancient people, particularly Neanderthals, the distal bones were
shorter, usually thought to be an adaptation to cold climate.[109] The same adaptation is found in
some modern people living in the polar regions.[110]

Height ranges overlap between Neanderthals and AMH, with Neanderthal averages cited as 164 to
168 cm (65 to 66 in) and 152 to 156 cm (60 to 61 in) for males and females, respectively, which is
largely identical to pre-industrial average heights for AMH.[note 10] Contemporary national
averages range between 158 to 184  cm (62 to 72  in) in males and 147 to 172  cm (58 to 68  in) in
females. Neanderthal ranges approximate the contemporary height distribution measured among
Malay people, for one.[note 11]

Recent evolution
Following the peopling of Africa some 130,000 years ago, and the recent Out-of-Africa expansion
some 70,000 to 50,000 years ago, some sub-populations of H. sapiens had been essentially
isolated for tens of thousands of years prior to the early modern Age of Discovery. Combined with
archaic admixture this has resulted in significant genetic variation, which in some instances has
been shown to be the result of directional selection taking place over the past 15,000 years, i.e.
significantly later than possible archaic admixture events.[113]

Some climatic adaptations, such as high-altitude adaptation in humans, are thought to have been
acquired by archaic admixture. Introgression of genetic variants acquired by Neanderthal
admixture have different distributions in European and East Asians, reflecting differences in
recent selective pressures. A 2014 study reported that Neanderthal-derived variants found in East
Asian populations showed clustering in functional groups related to immune and haematopoietic
pathways, while European populations showed clustering in functional groups related to the lipid
catabolic process.[note 12] A 2017 study found correlation of Neanderthal admixture in phenotypic
traits in modern European populations.[115]

Physiological or phenotypical changes have been traced to Upper Paleolithic mutations, such as the
East Asian variant of the EDAR gene, dated to c. 35,000 years ago.[note 13]

Recent divergence of Eurasian lineages was sped up significantly during the Last Glacial Maximum
(LGM), the Mesolithic and the Neolithic, due to increased selection pressures and due to founder
effects associated with migration.[118] Alleles predictive of light skin have been found in
Neanderthals,[119] but the alleles for light skin in Europeans and East Asians, associated with
KITLG and ASIP, are (as of 2012) thought to have not been acquired by archaic admixture but
recent mutations since the LGM.[118] Phenotypes associated with the "white" or "Caucasian"
populations of Western Eurasian stock emerge during the LGM, from about 19,000 years ago.
Average cranial capacity in modern human populations varies in the range of 1,200 to 1,450 cm3
for adult males. Larger cranial volume is associated with climatic region, the largest averages being
found in populations of Siberia and the Arctic.[note 14][121] Both Neanderthal and EEMH had
somewhat larger cranial volumes on average than modern Europeans, suggesting the relaxation of
selection pressures for larger brain volume after the end of the LGM.[120]

Examples for still later adaptations related to agriculture and animal domestication including East
Asian types of ADH1B associated with rice domestication,[122] or lactase persistence,[123][124] are
due to recent selection pressures.

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An even more recent adaptation has been proposed for the Austronesian Sama-Bajau, developed
under selection pressures associated with subsisting on freediving over the past thousand years or
so.[125][126]

Behavioral modernity
Behavioral modernity, involving the
development of language, figurative art and
early forms of religion (etc.) is taken to have
arisen before 40,000 years ago, marking the
beginning of the Upper Paleolithic (in African
contexts also known as the Later Stone
Age).[127]

There is considerable debate regarding whether

the earliest anatomically modern humans
behaved similarly to recent or existing humans. Lithic Industries of early Homo sapiens at Blombos
Behavioral modernity is taken to include fully Cave (M3 phase, MIS 5), Southern Cape, South Africa
developed language (requiring the capacity for (c. 105,000 – 90,000 years old)
abstract thought), artistic expression, early
forms of religious behavior,[128] increased
cooperation and the formation of early settlements, and the production of articulated tools from
lithic cores, bone or antler. The term Upper Paleolithic is intended to cover the period since the
rapid expansion of modern humans throughout Eurasia, which coincides with the first appearance
of Paleolithic art such as cave paintings and the development of technological innovation such as
the spear-thrower. The Upper Paleolithic begins around 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, and also
coincides with the disappearance of archaic humans such as the Neanderthals.

The term "behavioral modernity" is somewhat disputed. It is

most often used for the set of characteristics marking the
Upper Paleolithic, but some scholars use "behavioral
modernity" for the emergence of H. sapiens around 200,000
years ago,[129] while others use the term for the rapid
developments occurring around 50,000 years ago.[130][131][132]
It has been proposed that the emergence of behavioral
modernity was a gradual process.[133][134][135][136][137]

Examples of behavioural modernity

Bifacial silcrete point of early Homo
sapiens, from M1 phase (71,000 The equivalent of the
BCE) layer of Blombos Cave, South Eurasian Upper Paleolithic
Africa in African archaeology is
known as the Later Stone
Age, also beginning roughly
40,000 years ago. While most clear evidence for behavioral Claimed "oldest known drawing by
modernity uncovered from the later 19th century was from human hands", discovered in
Europe, such as the Venus figurines and other artefacts from Blombos Cave in South Africa.
the Aurignacian, more recent archaeological research has Estimated to be a 73,000-year-old
shown that all essential elements of the kind of material culture work of a Homo sapiens.[138]
typical of contemporary San hunter-gatherers in Southern
Africa was also present by at least 40,000 years ago, including
digging sticks of similar materials used today, ostrich egg shell beads, bone arrow heads with
individual maker's marks etched and embedded with red ochre, and poison applicators.[139] There
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is also a suggestion that "pressure flaking best explains the morphology of lithic artifacts recovered
from the c. 75-ka Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. The technique was used
during the final shaping of Still Bay bifacial points made on heat‐treated silcrete."[140] Both
pressure flaking and heat treatment of materials were previously thought to have occurred much
later in prehistory, and both indicate a behaviourally modern sophistication in the use of natural
materials. Further reports of research on cave sites along the southern African coast indicate that
"the debate as to when cultural and cognitive characteristics typical of modern humans first
appeared" may be coming to an end, as "advanced technologies with elaborate chains of
production" which "often demand high-fidelity transmission and thus language" have been found
at the South African Pinnacle Point Site 5–6. These have been dated to approximately 71,000 years
ago. The researchers suggest that their research "shows that microlithic technology originated
early in South Africa by 71 kya, evolved over a vast time span (c. 11,000 years), and was typically
coupled to complex heat treatment that persisted for nearly 100,000 years. Advanced technologies
in Africa were early and enduring; a small sample of excavated sites in Africa is the best
explanation for any perceived 'flickering' pattern."[141] Increases in behavioral complexity have
been speculated to have been a linked to an earlier climatic change to much drier conditions
between 135,000 and 75,000 years ago.[142] This might have led to human groups who were
seeking refuge from the inland droughts, expanded along the coastal marshes rich in shellfish and
other resources. Since sea levels were low due to so much water tied up in glaciers, such
marshlands would have occurred all along the southern coasts of Eurasia. The use of rafts and
boats may well have facilitated exploration of offshore islands and travel along the coast, and
eventually permitted expansion to New Guinea and then to Australia.[143]

In addition, a variety of other evidence of abstract imagery, widened subsistence strategies, and
other "modern" behaviors has been discovered in Africa, especially South, North, and East Africa,
predating 50,000 years ago (with some predating 100,000 years ago). The Blombos Cave site in
South Africa, for example, is famous for rectangular slabs of ochre engraved with geometric
designs. Using multiple dating techniques, the site was confirmed to be around 77,000 and
100,000–75,000 years old.[144][145] Ostrich egg shell containers engraved with geometric designs
dating to 60,000 years ago were found at Diepkloof, South Africa.[146] Beads and other personal
ornamentation have been found from Morocco which might be as much as 130,000 years old; as
well, the Cave of Hearths in South Africa has yielded a number of beads dating from significantly
prior to 50,000 years ago,[147] and shell beads dating to about 75,000 years ago have been found at
Blombos Cave, South Africa.[148][149][150] Specialized projectile weapons as well have been found at
various sites in Middle Stone Age Africa, including bone and stone arrowheads at South African
sites such as Sibudu Cave (along with an early bone needle also found at Sibudu) dating
approximately 72,000–60,000 years ago[151][152][153][154][155] some of which may have been tipped
with poisons,[156] and bone harpoons at the Central African site of Katanda dating ca. 90,000 years
ago.[157] Evidence also exists for the systematic heat treating of silcrete stone to increase its flake-
ability for the purpose of toolmaking, beginning approximately 164,000 years ago at the South
African site of Pinnacle Point and becoming common there for the creation of microlithic tools at
about 72,000 years ago.[158][141]

In 2008, an ochre processing workshop likely for the production of paints was uncovered dating to
ca. 100,000 years ago at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Analysis shows that a liquefied pigment-rich
mixture was produced and stored in the two abalone shells, and that ochre, bone, charcoal,
grindstones and hammer-stones also formed a composite part of the toolkits. Evidence for the
complexity of the task includes procuring and combining raw materials from various sources
(implying they had a mental template of the process they would follow), possibly using
pyrotechnology to facilitate fat extraction from bone, using a probable recipe to produce the
compound, and the use of shell containers for mixing and storage for later use.[159][160][161]
Modern behaviors, such as the making of shell beads, bone tools and arrows, and the use of ochre
pigment, are evident at a Kenyan site by 78,000-67,000 years ago.[162] Evidence of early stone-

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tipped projectile weapons (a characteristic tool of Homo sapiens), the stone tips of javelins or
throwing spears, were discovered in 2013 at the Ethiopian site of Gademotta, and date to around
279,000 years ago.[163]

Expanding subsistence strategies beyond big-game hunting and the consequential diversity in tool
types have been noted as signs of behavioral modernity. A number of South African sites have
shown an early reliance on aquatic resources from fish to shellfish. Pinnacle Point, in particular,
shows exploitation of marine resources as early as 120,000 years ago, perhaps in response to more
arid conditions inland.[164] Establishing a reliance on predictable shellfish deposits, for example,
could reduce mobility and facilitate complex social systems and symbolic behavior. Blombos Cave
and Site 440 in Sudan both show evidence of fishing as well. Taphonomic change in fish skeletons
from Blombos Cave have been interpreted as capture of live fish, clearly an intentional human
behavior.[147]

Humans in North Africa (Nazlet Sabaha, Egypt) are known to have dabbled in chert mining, as
early as ≈100,000 years ago, for the construction of stone tools.[165][166]

Evidence was found in 2018, dating to about 320,000 years ago at the site of Olorgesailie in Kenya,
of the early emergence of modern behaviors including: the trade and long-distance transportation
of resources (such as obsidian), the use of pigments, and the possible making of projectile points.
The authors of three 2018 studies on the site observe that the evidence of these behaviors is
roughly contemporary with the earliest known Homo sapiens fossil remains from Africa (such as at
Jebel Irhoud and Florisbad), and they suggest that complex and modern behaviors began in Africa
around the time of the emergence of Homo sapiens.[167][168][169]

In 2019, further evidence of Middle Stone Age complex projectile weapons in Africa was found at
Aduma, Ethiopia, dated 100,000–80,000 years ago, in the form of points considered likely to
belong to darts delivered by spear throwers.[170]

Pace of progress during Homo sapiens history

Homo sapiens technological and cultural progress appears to have been very much faster in recent
millennia than in Homo sapiens early periods. The pace of development may indeed have
accelerated, due to massively larger population (so more humans extant to think of innovations),
more communication and sharing of ideas among human populations, and the accumulation of
thinking tools. However it may also be that the pace of advancements always looks relatively faster
to humans in the time they live, because previous advances are unrecognised.[171]

Notes
1. Based on Schlebusch et al., "Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human
divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago",[6] Fig. 3 (https://d2ufo47lrtsv5s.cloudfront.net/co
ntent/sci/early/2017/09/27/science.aao6266/F3.large.jpg) (H. sapiens divergence times) and
Stringer (2012),[7] (archaic admixture).
2. This is a matter of convention (rather than a factual dispute), and there is no universal
consensus on terminology. Some scholars include humans of up to 600,000 years ago under
the same species. See Bryant (2003), p. 811.[11] See also Tattersall (2012), Page 82 (cf.
Unfortunately this consensus in principle hardly clarifies matters much in practice. For there is
no agreement on what the 'qualities of a man' actually are," [...]).[12]
3. Werdelin[13] citing Lieberman et al.[14]

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4. The history of claimed or proposed subspecies of H. sapiens is complicated and fraught with
controversy. The only widely recognized archaic subspecies is H. sapiens idaltu (2003). The
name H. s. sapiens is due to Linnaeus (1758), and refers by definition the subspecies of which
Linnaeus himself is the type specimen. However, Linnaeus postulated four other extant
subspecies, viz. H. s. afer, H. s. americanus, H. s. asiaticus and H. s. ferus for Africans,
Americans, Asians and Malay. This classification remained in common usage until the mid 20th
century, sometimes alongside H. s. tasmanianus for Australians. See, for example, Bailey,
1946;[18] Hall, 1946.[19] The division of extant human populations into taxonomic subspecies
was gradually given up in the 1970s (for example, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia[20]).
5. (95% confidence interval 237–581 kya)[58]
6. "Although none of the Qesem teeth shows a suite of Neanderthal characters, a few traits may
suggest some affinities with members of the Neanderthal evolutionary lineage. However, the
balance of the evidence suggests a closer similarity with the Skhul/Qafzeh dental material,
although many of these resemblances likely represent plesiomorphous features."[62]
7. "Currently available genetic and archaeological evidence is generally interpreted as supportive
of a recent single origin of modern humans in East Africa."[83]
8. It is important to note that this is a question of conventional terminology, not one of a factual
disagreement. Pääbo (2014) frames this as a debate that is unresolvable in principle, "since
there is no definition of species perfectly describing the case."[94]
9. Contemporary human endocranial volume averages at 1,350 cm3 (82 cu in), with significant
differences between populations, global group means range 1,085–1,580 cm3 (66.2–
96.4 cu in).[104] Neanderthal average is close to 1,450 cm3 (88 cu in) (male average 1,600 cm3
(98 cu in), female average 1,300 cm3 (79 cu in)), with a range extending up to 1,736 cm3
(105.9 cu in) (Amud 1).[105]
10. "Based on 45 long bones from maximally 14 males and 7 females, Neanderthals' height
averages between 164 and 168 (males) resp. 152 to 156 cm (females). This height is indeed
12–14 cm lower than the height of post-WWII Europeans, but compared to Europeans some
20,000 or 100 years ago, it is practically identical or even slightly higher."[111]
11. Malay, 20–24 (N= m:749 f:893, Median= m:166 cm (5 ft 51⁄2 in) f:155 cm (5 ft 1 in), SD=
m:6.46 cm (21⁄2 in) f:6.04 cm (21⁄2 in))[112]
12. "Specifically, genes in the LCP [lipid catabolic process] term had the greatest excess of NLS in
populations of European descent, with an average NLS frequency of 20.8±2.6% versus
5.9±0.08% genome wide (two-sided t-test, P<0.0001, n=379 Europeans and n=246 Africans).
Further, among examined out-of-Africa human populations, the excess of NLS [Neanderthal-
like genomic sites] in LCP genes was only observed in individuals of European descent: the
average NLS frequency in Asians is 6.7±0.7% in LCP genes versus 6.2±0.06% genome
wide."[114]
13. Traits affected by the mutation are sweat glands, teeth, hair thickness and breast
tissue.[116][117]
14. "We offer an alternative hypothesis that suggests that hominid expansion into regions of cold
climate produced change in head shape. Such change in shape contributed to the increased
cranial volume. Bioclimatic effects directly upon body size (and indirectly upon brain size) in
combination with cranial globularity appear to be a fairly powerful explanation of ethnic group
differences." (figure in Beals, p304)[120]

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Reich, David (2018). Who We Are And How We Got Here – Ancient DNA and the New Science

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of the Human Past. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-1101870327.[1]

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eractive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016).
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Data related to Early modern human at Wikispecies
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es.com/2018/04/20/books/review/david-reich-who-we-are-how-we-got-here.html). The New
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