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Evolutionary anthropology

the puzzle of the long delay between the appearance of anatomically and genetically modern humans and the later onset of sedentism and complex culture.

In evolutionary anthropology, sapient paradox refers to the puzzle of the long delay between the appearance of anatomically and genetically modern humans and the later onset of sedentism and complex culture. This meaning comes from Renfrew (2008) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Renfrew, C. (2008). Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox: the factuality of value and of the sacred. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1499), 2041-2047. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0010

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