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A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa.
Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Regional impacts of climate change and its relevance to human evolution.Evolutionary human sciences · 2020Review
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20 authors at 12 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution
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