Digging Deep: New study shows how climate informed hominin evolution - The Indian Express

An interdisciplinary team of researchers sought to employ climate modelling reconstructing past climate over the last 2 mya period in corroboration with the existing fossil and genetic evidence.

It has been common knowledge that climatic shifts, in particular the transition from the warm and wet Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) to the cold and dry Pleistocene (2.6 mya 10 kya), played a key role in the… [+5859 chars]

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