Sentence examples for modern behavior from inspiring English sources

Later we have some bare-chested men and more overtly modern behavior.

Or perhaps the capacity for modern behavior came late, a result of some as yet undetected genetic transformation.

Enthralled, scholars perhaps could not bring themselves to look for earlier and more distant origins of modern behavior.

For much of the last century, archaeologists thought that modern behavior flowered relatively recently, 40,000 years ago, and only after Homo sapiens had pushed into Europe.

Bone tools were indicative of modern behavior, Dr. Brooks said, because their production required a "higher level of planning and conceptualization than just knocking off flakes of stone".

In the past decade, Dr. Henshilwood's teams have shaken conventional wisdom by finding persuasive evidence that people living in the cave were taking important strides toward modern behavior.

Dr. Klein said in an interview that he doubted some of the early dates proposed by Dr. McBrearty and Dr. Brooks, and that even if the dates were correct, modern behaviors conferred such an advantage that they should appear in a broad pattern, not just at the handful of places cited by his critics.

But evidence of modern behavior--such as the use of advanced hunting and fishing techniques and the creation of elaborate tools and art or other symbolic expression--has turned up only sporadically before 40,000 years ago.

The expression of modern behaviors, however, seems to have exploded around 45,000 years ago.

"Modern behaviors" do not begin to appear until around 75,000 years ago (such as engravings and body ornaments).

Once regarded as brutish and dumb compared to modern humans, Neandertals are now often credited with "modern behaviors" such as crafting sophisticated tools and symbolic personal ornaments.