Human Evolution Linked to Climate Change
The earliest of humans probably evolved quickly in response to a rapidly changing environment. Support for this theory was presented recently at the annual conference of the Royal Geographic Society.
Evidence shows that during the three wet and humid periods – there was a specific diversification in human evolution. After each period, it was found that the brain size of these early humans increased and became more complex. Dr Maslin argues that this is an indication of adaptation and re-adaptation to the environmental stress caused by appearing and disappearing water sources.
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