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Human Origins and Language Origins 1: A polycentric scenario for biocultural niche expansion

2026-05-01

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<p>This article presents a gradualist perspective on material and symbolic niche construction and expansion that integrates data and theories from archaeology, biology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and semiotics. Empirical evidence is reviewed from the broader archaeological inventory of material culture (lithics and bone artefacts, pigments, ornaments, other material signs) and from evidence f...

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1d98d484-d3d2-567e-bff3-c5b4bf1f5512
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10.31234/osf.io/7a6ut_v1
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