The human dispersal out of Africa that populated the world was probably paced by climate changes. This is the inference drawn from computer modelling of climate variability during the time of early human migration. See Letter p.92
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deMenocal, P., Stringer, C. Climate and the peopling of the world. Nature 538, 49–50 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19471
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