“Dividing Homo sapiens into modern and archaic or premodern categories and invoking the evolution of behavioral modernity to explain the difference has never been a good idea. Like the now-discredited scientific concept of race, it reflects hierarchical and typological thinking about human variability that has no place in a truly scientific anthropology. Indeed, the concept of behavioral modernity can be said to be worse than wrong, because it is an obstacle to understanding.” – Dr. John Shea, Refuting a Myth About Human Origins, April 2011, American Scientist, Vol. 99 No. 2 (Fair Use License) Read More…
