Articles for tag: Anthropology, archaeology, genetics, human evolution, Prehistoric Humans

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How Climate Change Shaped Human Evolution Over Millennia

Suhail Ahmed

Across deep time, shifting climates didn’t just rattle landscapes – they rewired what it meant to be human. From droughts that squeezed early ancestors into risky experiments to wetter pulses that opened green corridors across continents, environmental swings set the stage for our biggest leaps. Today, scientists are piecing together this story from lake mud, ...

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How Early Humans Conquered the Globe: The Secret Behind the 50,000-Year Migration

Jan Otte

Scientists have perplexed for decades over a basic question: How could a small group of Homo sapiens effectively leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, spreading to every corner of the planet, while earlier migration attempts failed? According to a ground-breaking research that was written about in Nature, our predecessors did not merely happen onto fresh ...