Sentences with phrase «behavioral modernity»

Truly modern language, akin to languages spoken today, may thus have been the key cultural innovation that allowed the emergence of these and other hallmarks of behavioral modernity and ultimately led to our colonization of the globe.»

That is, the earliest anatomically modern humans had the cognitive capacity for behavioral modernity when their fossils first appeared in the record.

Representatives of each of these disciplines gathered February 19 - 22 at a workshop, «Origins of Human Uniqueness and Behavioral Modernity,» staged by Arizona State University's Origins Project to discuss recent advances in their respective fields.

What is human uniqueness, and how did it contribute to what we could now call behavioral modernity?

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But as Novak points out, at least one reason for this quasi «religious subscription to the norms of modernity is precisely the sense that, in contrast to Christianity, Judaism» as primarily a behavioral rather than a doctrinal religion» is ideally suited to worship at the Kantian altar.