Scientists no longer use the term Cro-Magnon

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A century and a half of research since then has led scholars to change their minds. The new belief is that the physical dimensions of the so-called “Cro-Magnon” are not sufficiently different enough from modern humans to warrant a separate designation. Instead, scientists today use “Anatomically Modern Human” (AMH) or “Early Modern Human” (EMH) to designate the Upper Paleolithic human beings who looked a lot like us but did not have the complete suite of modern human behaviors (or rather, who were in the process of developing those behaviors).

https://www.thoughtco.com/we-dont-call-them-cro-magnon-170738#:~:text=%22Cro%2DMagnon%22%20is%20the,about%2010%2C000%20of%20those%20years.

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