A new model shows that humans might be the product of stress and adaptation to changing conditions.
The most widespread hominins—including us—were those that had adapted to changing climate.
“I was most excited about the fact that we could demonstrate that the real time evolution of climate…influenced where actual ancient humans lived,” says Axel Timmermann, a climate modeler at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea, and the paper’s lead author. “If the climate evolution had been different, anthropologists nowadays would find the ancient human fossil specimens in different regions or corresponding to different ages.
Maps on the left show the actual locations of artifacts and fossils overlaid on predicted models of habitat suitability for six species of human., believed to be the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals, seems to have been somewhere in the middle, following a wet zone through the Rift Valley and into the Levant region in Western Asia before finding a suitable habitat in Europe..
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