Behaviour and Cognitive Innovation
See also: modern behaviourThe development of modern behaviour in the MSA is likely to have been a vast and complex series of events that developed in a mosaic way. Some have argued for discontinuity such as Richard G. Klein, while other such as McBrearty and Brooks have argued that cognitive advances can be detected in the MSA and that the origin of our species is linked with the appearance of Middle Stone Age technology at 250-300 ka.
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