Understanding Climate's Influence on Human Evolution
National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Earth Sciences and Resources; Committee on the Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution
NAS Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0309148383 0309148391 9780309148399 9780309148382 | 129 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution