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Warm Land Surface Temperatures And Eastern Asian Homo, Robert Patalano, Hong Yang
Warm Land Surface Temperatures And Eastern Asian Homo, Robert Patalano, Hong Yang
Biological and Biomedical Sciences Department Faculty Journal Articles
Climate change and hominin evolution are inextricably linked. Pleistocene climate variability, for example, is thought to have had major influences on hominin morphology, brain size, and diversity. However, clear cause-and-effect relationships between specific climatic events and major evolutionary occurrences are difficult to establish due to temporal and spatial gaps in paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, and archaeological records. A new branched GDGT paleotemperature record from the Lantian Basin of Central China (Lu et al., 2022), a location known for the earliest hominin presence in East Asia, illustrates warm land surface temperatures over a two-million-year period between 2.6 and 0.6 Ma, a critical time …