Cold, dry climate shifts linked to Neanderthal disappearance
Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.
Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.
Archaeology
Aug 27, 2018
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The timing of the Middle Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles and the feedback mechanisms between climatic shifts and earth-surface processes are still poorly understood. This is largely due to the fact that chronological ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2018
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from University College London and the University of Plymouth, both in the U.K., has found evidence that suggests at least some of the population shifts that have occurred over the past ...
A well-designed climate observing system could help scientists answer knotty questions about climate while delivering trillions of dollars in benefits by providing decision makers information they need to protect public health ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2017
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A small group of Homo sapiens left Africa around 100,000 years ago in a series of astronomically paced slow migration waves and arrived for the first time in southern Europe around 80,000-90,000 years ago, according to a ...
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2016
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This is the news of a ground-breaking study recently published in the open access journal PLOS ONE. Professor Christopher S. Henshilwood and Postdoctoral Fellow Karen L. van Niekerk from the Department of Archaeology, History, ...
Archaeology
Sep 1, 2016
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Habitat alteration due to forest clearing and climate change threaten wildlife populations throughout the globe. To better understand the interacting effects of habitat degradation and climate on bird populations, researchers ...
Ecology
Mar 6, 2015
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The warm ocean temperatures that brought an endangered green sea turtle to San Francisco in September have triggered a population explosion of bright pink, inch-long sea slugs in tide pools along California's central and ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2015
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To understand how the repeated climatic shifts over the last 120,000 years may have influenced today's patterns of genetic diversity, a team of researchers led by City College of New York biologist Dr. Ana Carnaval developed ...
Ecology
Aug 29, 2014
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Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate change and ocean currents over the past six million years after analysing an area of the Atlantic near the Strait of Gibraltar, according to research published today ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2014
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