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  • Edit 2: This reply isn’t even relevent anymore because the poster is editing their before posts to try and make my replies seem bad, really weird behaviour.

    I never said there was a single definition. Just that most people think it’s characterised by things like symbolic language and art.

    And the first paragraph of the wikipedia article you sent agrees with me

    Most scholars agree that modern human behavior can be characterized by abstract thinkingplanning depth, symbolic behavior (e.g., artornamentation), music and dance, exploitation of large game, and blade technology, among others.

    Edit: I posted my paragraoh before you replied with that article. My edit was fixing spelling adding the homo habilis example and fixing language to last common ancestor around my chimp example because I had said “evolved from Chimps” which is inaccurate.


  • Depends what you mean by behaviourally modern.

    Skulls around 2.5 million year old range (seen in homo habilis for example) are very different (and much smaller) from the ones we currently have. I mean humans only split off from our common ancestor with chimps about 5 - 7 million years ago.

    So timewise 2.5 Mya is just a little more than halfway between our last common ancestors and modern Homo Sapiens (Sapiens).

    The earliest evidence we have for things like symbolic language and abstract art is more like 50-100’000 years ago. That’s what most people mean by behaviourally modern.