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How Have Hominids Adapted to Past Climate Change?
Apr 13, 2010 · Now, at the outset of another climatic change triggered by human behavior, scientists say, the past can offer clues about our species' ability to survive and adapt over millions of years.
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How Climate Change and Plate Tectonics Shaped …
Nov 14, 2013 · A new study links the emergence of new hominin species, expanding brain capacity and early human migration with the appearance of …
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New Evidence Shows How Human Evolution Was …
Sep 1, 2014 · Why were these evolutionary milestones, harbingers of modern humanity, so clustered in time? A number of scientists now think two episodes of climate change may have been the cause.
Climate Change May Have Spurred Human Evolution
Jan 2, 2013 · An ancient lake whose shores vacillated between lush forests and dry savannahs shows how the changing climate may have shaped humanity's dawn in eastern Africa, …
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Early Humans—Not Climate Change—Decimated Africa’s Large …
Nov 1, 2013 · But by 1.5 million years ago a new kind of hominin was on the scene—one that was bigger, smarter and armed with stone tools.
Record-Breaking Simulation Hints at How Climate Shaped …
Apr 14, 2022 · The early human species Homo heidelbergensis (skull shown) might have been able to spread across Earth because wetter, more migration-friendly weather conditions arose, …
How Homo sapiens Became the Ultimate Invasive …
Aug 1, 2015 · A third scenario holds that climate change weakened the populations of Neandertals and other archaic human species that were occupying the territories outside Africa, allowing modern humans to...
Humans May Be the Most Adaptive Species
Sep 25, 2013 · This adaptive ability not only allowed our progenitors to ride the massive seesaws of climate shifts but subsequently helped them to colonize new habitats. The earlier hominid species Homo...
New Twist Added to the Role of Culture in Human Evolution
Sep 1, 2014 · But in Ice Age times hominins were mobile hunters and gatherers, living off nature's bounty and thinly spread across the Old World. Climate change constantly buffeted these tiny …
New Evidence Shows How Climate Shaped Human …
Oct 1, 2016 · Why were these evolutionary milestones, harbingers of modern humanity, so clustered in time? A number of scientists now think two episodes of climate change may have been the cause.
Did Ancient Climate Change Ignite Human Evolution?
Jun 6, 2016 · A new study suggests this may have been catalyzed by a prolonged pattern of climate change that occurred as humans were first evolving, and made their habitats more prone to wildfire.
How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human …
Sep 1, 2020 · Some experts have suggested that hominin brains ballooned as they adapted to climate fluctuations between wet and dry conditions, among other explanations.
Why Is Homo sapiens the Sole Surviving Member of the Human …
Sep 1, 2018 · So what happened in the intervening 200,000 years or more to transform our species from run-of-the-mill hominin to world-conquering force of nature?
What Makes Humans Different Than Any Other Species
Sep 1, 2014 · The answer has to begin with speculations about changes in hominin physiology and behavior that may have taken place hundreds of thousands of years ago.
The Real Paleo Diet - Scientific American
Jul 1, 2018 · These results fit neatly with a leading model of how climate change shaped human evolution that has superseded the savanna hypothesis.
What Can Past Climate Change Reveal about Human Adaptation?
Mar 5, 2010 · But a new report suggests that there's value in looking at not just how humans shape the climate, but how the climate shaped human development going back millions of years.
Climate Change is Disrupting Animals’ Brains. Here’s How
Nov 16, 2023 · In marine environments, researchers have found that climate-induced changes of water chemistry like ocean acidification can affect animals’ general cognitive performance and …
Changing Climate Will Make Massive Shifts in Earth's Vegetation
Dec 16, 2011 · Climate change will alter the mix of vegetation on 49 percent of Earth's land surface by the end of this century, scrambling and shifting existing ecosystems, according to a …
How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate? - Scientific American
Mar 1, 2005 · The scientific consensus that human actions first began to have a warming effect on the earth's climate within the past century has become part of the public perception as well.
What Makes People Act on Climate Change, according to …
Apr 19, 2023 · A crucial question has been how best to spur people toward more climate-friendly behaviors, such as taking the bus instead of driving or reducing home energy use.
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