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Record-breaking simulation hints at how climate shaped human migration

Model suggests that a shift in weather patterns in southern Africa might have contributed to the rise of Homo sapiens.
  1. Freda Kreier
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A colossal simulation of the past two million years of Earth’s climate provides evidence that temperature and other planetary conditions influenced early human migration — and possibly contributed to the emergence of the modern-day human species around 300,000 years ago.

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Nature 604, 610 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01050-1

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