Talk:Early modern human

Early modern human
	Migration routes according to recent African origin of modern humans (2023)
Horizon	Recent African origin of modern humans
Geographical range	Worldwide
Period	Paleolithic
Dates	300,000 to 200,000 years ago
Type site	Hunter-gatherers attributed behavioral modernity
Major sites	Omo-Kibish I, Ethiopia; Florisbad, South Africa; Jebel Irhoud, Morocco; Ust'-Ishim man, Siberia
Characteristics	Y-chromosomal Adam (A, c. 300,000–160,000 BCE); Mitochondrial Eve (L, c. 100,000–230,000 BCE)
Preceded by	Homo erectus or intermediate Homo antecessor; interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
Followed by	Humans

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A personal observation regarding this article

It's not of any importance to the substance of the article itself, but I find the following sentence, "The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself also the type specimen)" to be quite humorous. I enjoy when something has this kind of subtle humor. I'm curious if this was intentional, and if not, I would like to say that this line should be kept the way it is permanently. --User:WolfShadow — Preceding undated comment added 23:32, 6 December 2018.

Typo in line 8: “founded”,

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Needs closer editing RobertEmmett (talk) 02:42, 27 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Fixed. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:00, 27 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit request: Unusual formatting

Latest comment: 9 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The phrase "Most researchers now agree" under the section Behavioral modernity is bolded, which doesn't align with Wikipedia typical formatting practices, if someone with edit permission can fix it. Have a nice day :) ~2025-43387-13 (talk) 05:39, 28 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Fixed. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:36, 28 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 15 June 2026

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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The behavioral modernity section ending in,

"One-sentence takeaway: Behavioral modernity reflects the cultural stabilization of long-evolved cognitive capacities, not a late neurological breakthrough or a simple gradual accumulation of traits,"

Is blatantly copy-pasted AI text. Per Wikipedia's terms of use, AI text is strictly prohibited. This entire section should be assessed for accuracy and AI text removed. Ldepablo (talk) 19:37, 15 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done Yeah, that's about as blatant as it gets. I've reverted the section back to a previous version before the AI slop was added. Day Creature (talk) 23:01, 15 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Infobox suggestions

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Please see: Talk:Human#Suggested_new_infobox_in_Culture_section ~2026-36072-60 (talk) 13:13, 22 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Proposed infobox