Contemporary understandings of paleoanthropological data illustrate that the search for a line defining, or a specific point designating, “modern human” is problematic. Here we lend support to the argument for the need to look for patterns in the paleoanthropological record that indicate how multiple evolutionary processes intersected to form the human niche, a concept critical to assessing the development and processes involved in the emergence of a contemporary human phenotype. We suggest that incorporating key elements of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) into our endeavors offers a better and more integrative toolkit for modeling and assessing the evolution of the genus Homo. To illustrate our points, we highlight how aspects of the genetic exchanges, morphology, and material culture of the later Pleistocene complicate the concept of “modern” human behavior and suggest that multiple evolutionary patterns, processes, and pathways intersected to form the human niche.

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现代性的涟漪：如何通过扩展的进化综合方法扩展古人类学

当代对古人类学数据的理解表明，寻找一条定义“现代人类”的线或特定的点是有问题的。在这里，我们支持需要在古人类学记录中寻找模式的论点，该模式表明多种进化过程如何相交以形成人类生态位，而这一概念对于评估当代人类表型的出现所涉及的发展和过程至关重要。我们建议将扩展进化综合（EES）的关键要素纳入我们的工作中，可以为建模和评估Homo属的进化提供更好，更集成的工具包。。为了说明我们的观点，我们重点介绍了后更新世的遗传交换，形态和物质文化各方面如何使“现代”人类行为的概念复杂化，并提出了多种进化模式，过程和途径相交以形成人类生态位。