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What would be pre-modern human cognition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2025

Nicholas Blurton Jones
Nicholas Blurton Jones*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, San Clemente, CA, USA nickbj@ucla.edu
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Abstract

Stibbard-Hawkes's detailed demonstration that in the case of hunter-gatherer artifacts, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence must never be forgotten. The belief that there is a single coherent “human cognitive capacity” difference between modern humans and some unspecified earlier form should be rigorously re-examined.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e6
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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