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A human perspective

As we face perhaps the biggest challenge in our species' history, Chris Stringer — a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum and author of The Origin Of Our Species — tells Nature Climate Change how our hominid cousins battled past climate change.

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Figure 1: The peak of climate stress.
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Vince, G. A human perspective. Nature Clim Change 1, 287–288 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1220

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