Article: Road to greater intelligence in modern humans was a long and winding one.

Article: The evolution of modern humans in Africa; a ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2007 ;     454 words ... ... 9780759101180 The evolution of modern humans in Africa; a comprehensive ... evolution of fully modern humans in Africa during the Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age. Using evidence ... dispersal of these modern humans throughout Africa and ...

Article: ROAD TO GREATER INTELLIGENCE IN MODERN HUMANS WAS A ...
The Hindustan Times;  December 8, 2008 ;     606 words ... ... an ancestor of modern humans, started using ... gave way to the Middle Stone Age, which featured ... were made by modern humans, because nearly ... archaeologists dated a Middle Stone Age site in Ethiopia ... the arrival of modern humans, although the ...

Article: Modern humans may have evolved 80,000 years earlier ...
Asian News International;  December 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... tools found in Ethiopia has led scientists to suggest that modern humans may have evolved more than 80,000 years earlier than previously ... to the more delicate and diverse points and blades of the Middle Stone Age. At other sites in Ethiopia, such as Herto in the Afar ...

Article: East African Artifacts Support Evolution of Symbolic Thinking in ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  March 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... across Africa during the Middle Stone Age. In a presentation to ... association with an assembly of Middle Stone Age tools. There are other ... tools generally found in the Middle Stone Age. The beads, which are ... record for the origin of modern humans in the Serengeti ...

Article: Romanian jawbone puts face to Europe's earliest modern ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Romania are putting a face to the oldest modern humans in Europe. The fossils _ a jawbone ... The jaw is the oldest known remains of modern humans in Europe, dating to about the time modern humans first entered the continent, he said ...

Article: Romanian jawbone puts face to Europe's earliest modern ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Romania are putting a face to the oldest modern humans in Europe. The fossils _ a jawbone ... The jaw is the oldest known remains of modern humans in Europe, dating to about the time modern humans first entered the continent, he said ...

Article: SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS OCCURRED LATER THAN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... following news release: The spread of modern humans out of Africa occurred 40,000 to ... paper titled "The Missing Years for Modern Humans" that appears in the Jan. 12 (Friday ... with the origins and dispersals of modern humans during the Ice Age. A fourth paper ...