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Climate and Human Evolution: Insights from Marine Records

Authors: Caley, Thibaut; Souron, Antoine; Uno, Kevin; Macho, Gabriele;

Climate and Human Evolution: Insights from Marine Records

Abstract

The relationship between climate and human evolution is complex, and the causal mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we review and synthesize what is currently known about climate forcings on African landscapes, focusing mainly on the last 4 million years. We use information derived from marine sediment archives and data-numerical climate model comparisons and integration. There exists a heterogeneity in pan-African hydroclimate changes, forced by a combination of orbitally paced, low-latitude fluctuations in insolation; polar ice volume changes; tropical sea surface temperature gradients linked to the Walker circulation; and possibly greenhouse gases. Pan-African vegetation changes do not follow the same pattern, which is suggestive of additional influences, such as CO2 and temperature. We caution against reliance on temporal correlations between global or regional climate, environmental changes, and human evolution and briefly proffer some ideas on how pan-African climate trends could help create novel conceptual frameworks to determine the causal mechanisms of associations between climate/habitat change and hominin evolution.

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France
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Geologic Sediments, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Climate Change, Climate, causal mechanisms, numerical, [SDU.STU.CL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, human evolution, paleoclimate, Humans, Animals, Ecosystem, marine records, modeling, Biological Evolution, [SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, [SDV.EE.BIO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Bioclimatology, numerical modeling, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Africa, [SDV.EE.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Bioclimatology

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