How migrations and other population dynamics could have shaped early human culture

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Fall 2017, Daily News
How migrations and other population dynamics could have shaped early human culture



STANFORD UNIVERSITY—Something odd happened in the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic, around 50,000 years ago. Modern humans and their immediate ancestors had been using tools for a few million years prior, but the repertoire was limited. Then, all of sudden, there was an explosion of new tools, art and other cultural artifacts.

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