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Climate change may have driven early human species to extinction

15 October 2020

Sudden climatic changes may have been a significant driver of the extinction of early human species, including the Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis

How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

6 February 2019

The most detailed ever look at Earth's prehistoric climate suggests many habitats changed in the past 800,000 years – and this may be why we evolved big brains

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Climate change may have driven early human species to extinction

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