[HTML][HTML] 非洲南部赞比西河流域距今30~ 5 ka 的孢粉组合及古气候变化

万正, 张虎才, 聂军胜, 赵永涛, 苗运法, 张晓楠… - 第四纪研究, 2023 - dsjyj.com.cn
非洲东南部晚更新世植被重建及对比研究有助于理解区域气候变化过程和驱动机制.
本研究依托国际大洋发现计划IODP361 航次科学任务所获取的U1477B 海洋钻孔, 对其上部4 …

The emergence and intensification of early hunter‐gatherer niche construction

JC Thompson, DK Wright… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hunter‐gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well‐represented in
archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in shaping …

Reconstructing the environmental context of human origins in Eastern Africa through scientific drilling

AS Cohen, CJ Campisano… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Paleoanthropologists have long speculated about the role of environmental change in
shaping human evolution in Africa. In recent years, drill cores of late Neogene lacustrine …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago

L Barham, GAT Duller, I Candy, C Scott, CR Cartwright… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Wood artefacts rarely survive from the Early Stone Age since they require exceptional
conditions for preservation; consequently, we have limited information about when and how …

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa

JC Thompson, DK Wright, SJ Ivory, JH Choi… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to
detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological …

Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

E Zeller, A Timmermann, KS Yun, P Raia, K Stein… - Science, 2023 - science.org
To investigate the role of vegetation and ecosystem diversity on hominin adaptation and
migration, we identify past human habitat preferences over time using a transient 3-million …

A stronger role for long-term moisture change than for CO2 in determining tropical woody vegetation change

WD Gosling, CS Miller, TM Shanahan, PB Holden… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenically elevated CO2 (eCO2) concentrations have been suggested to increase
woody cover within tropical ecosystems through fertilization. The effect of eCO2 is built into …

Genetic evidence for the origin of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, in the southwestern Indian Ocean

J Soghigian, A Gloria‐Soria, V Robert… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aedes aegypti is among the best‐studied mosquitoes due to its critical role as a vector of
human pathogens and ease of laboratory rearing. Until now, this species was thought to …

Elevated Southern Hemisphere moisture availability during glacial periods

R Weij, JMK Sniderman, JD Woodhead, JC Hellstrom… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Late Pleistocene ice-age climates are routinely characterized as having imposed moisture
stress on low-to mid-latitude ecosystems,,,–. This idea is largely based on fossil pollen …

Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution

RB Owen, VM Muiruri, TK Lowenstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Evidence for Quaternary climate change in East Africa has been derived from outcrops on
land and lake cores and from marine dust, leaf wax, and pollen records. These data have …