Mediterranean sediments are valuable archives of both African monsoon variability and
higher-latitude climate processes, and can also be used to provide an environmental context …

It has long been believed that climate shifts during the last 2 million years had a pivotal role
in the evolution of our genus Homo,–. However, given the limited number of representative …

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having
experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic …

The hundreds of cichlid fish species in Lake Malawi constitute the most extensive recent
vertebrate adaptive radiation. Here we characterize its genomic diversity by sequencing 134 …

Humans evolved in a patchwork of semi-connected populations across Africa,;
understanding when and how these groups connected is critical to interpreting our present …

Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to
detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological …

Aedes aegypti is among the best‐studied mosquitoes due to its critical role as a vector of
human pathogens and ease of laboratory rearing. Until now, this species was thought to …

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 …

Long paleoecological records are critical for understanding evolutionary responses to
environmental forcing and unparalleled tools for elucidating the mechanisms that lead to the …

Adaptive radiation is thought to be responsible for the evolution of a great portion of the past
and present diversity of life. Instances of adaptive radiation, characterized by the rapid …