The course of human evolution over the last 2 million years was shaped by habitation shifts linked to astronomically drivenUsing an unprecedented supercomputer simulation of Earth's climate as it transitioned through climatic shifts over the course of the Pleistocene epoch, researchers found that changes in variables such as precipitation and temperature were linked with how a range of different hominin species, including"Even though different groups of archaic humans preferred...
"One of the most notable problems is that terrestrial records of habitat information – such as that obtained from sedimentary outcrops and paleolake drill cores – are often limited in terms of the time frames of data available," explains archaeologist Michael Petraglia from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany, who wasn't involved with the study but is the author of aTo sidestep the issue, Timmermann and his team modeled changes in environmental...