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A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migrationsaa

2020-06-02

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<p>Around 200,000 yr ago, Homo sapiens emerged in Africa. By 40ka, Homo sapiens had spread throughout Eurasia, and a major competingspecies, the Neanderthals, became extinct. The factors thatdrove our species “out of Africa” remain a topic of vigorous debate.Existing research invokes climate change as either providing opportunitiesor imposing limits on human migration. Yet the paleoclimatehistory of northeast Afri...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7ky8x

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