We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population
and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils …

Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

In the future, the Sahara and Sahelian regions could experience more rainfall than today as
a result of climate change. Wetter periods, termed African humid periods, occurred in the …

Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing
the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia,,–. Archaeological and …

Current fossil, genetic, and archeological data indicate that Homo sapiens originated in
Africa in the late Middle Pleistocene. By the end of the Late Pleistocene, our species was …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Astronomically forced insolation changes have driven monsoon dynamics and recurrent
humid episodes in North Africa, resulting in green Sahara Periods (GSPs) with savannah …

Two interglacial epochs are included in the suite of Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison
Project (PMIP4) simulations in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The …

Abstract Around 200,000 yr ago, Homo sapiens emerged in Africa. By 40 ka, Homo sapiens
had spread throughout Eurasia, and a major competing species, the Neanderthals, became …