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Thank climate change for the rise of humans [1]

Some claim climate change will destroy our species; now it seems it also helped forge it. The rapid fluctuations in temperature that characterised the global climate between 2 and 3 million years ago coincided with a golden age in human evolution.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2011
Andy Coghlan [2]
New Scientist [3]
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Climate Change [4], Life Science [5], Global Warming [6], Climate Science [7], Fossils [8]
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