Hunter‐gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well‐represented in
archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in sha** …

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 …

Although climate change is considered to have been a large-scale driver of African human
evolution, landscape-scale shifts in ecological resources that may have shaped novel …

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 …

The hypothesis of a connection between the onset (or intensification) of Northern
Hemisphere Glaciation, the stepwise increase in African aridity (and climate variability), and …

The possibility of a causal relationship between Earth history processes and hominin
evolution in Africa has been the subject of intensive paleoanthropological research for the …

Pollen grains are valuable paleoclimate and paleovegetation proxies which require
extensive knowledge of morphotypes and long acquisition time under the microscope. The …

Abstract Sediments from the Magadi Basin (south Kenya Rift) preserve a one-million-year
palaeoenvironmental record that reflects interactions between climatic, volcanic and tectonic …

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