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Are we jingling modern hunter-gatherers and early Homo sapiens?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2025

John Protzko Open the ORCID record for John Protzko [Opens in a new window]
John Protzko*
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Psychological Science, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA protzko@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/view/assumptionlabccsu/home
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Abstract

Using modern hunter-gatherers to infer about early Homo sapiens only works if at least (a) modern hunter-gatherers represent an unbiased sample of humanity, and (b) modern hunter-gatherers act in ways similar to the behavior of early Homo sapiens. Both of these are false, leading to the problem of whether we can draw conclusions about early Homo sapiens from modern hunter-gatherers.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e15
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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