Efforts to date the oldest modern human fossils in eastern Africa, from Omo-Kibish,–and
Herto, in Ethiopia, have drawn on a variety of chronometric evidence, including 40Ar/39Ar …

Paleoanthropologists have long speculated about the role of environmental change in
sha** human evolution in Africa. In recent years, drill cores of late Neogene lacustrine …

Abstract The 2005 Lake Malawi deep scientific drill core is the longest and most continuous
high-resolution record from the continental tropics, extending to∼ 1.38 Ma. While extensive …

Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates
about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we …

Understanding eastern African paleoclimate is critical for contextualizing early human
evolution, adaptation, and dispersal, yet Pleistocene climate of this region and its governing …

Abstract The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) is renowned as a focus of investigations into human
origins. It is also the site of many large volcanic calderas, whose eruptions have spanned …

The relationship between climate and human evolution is complex, and the causal
mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we review and synthesize what is currently known …

Abstract Eastern Africa and Arabia were major hominin hotspots and critical crossroads for
migrating towards Asia during the late Pleistocene. To decipher the role of spatiotemporal …

Abstract The Chew Bahir Drilling Project (CBDP) aims to test possible linkages between
climate and hominin evolution in Africa through the analysis of sediment cores that have …