Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas

BA Potter, JF Baichtal, AB Beaudoin… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of
the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal …

[HTML][HTML] Abrupt change in climate and biotic systems

F Botta, D Dahl-Jensen, C Rahbek, A Svensson… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Fifty years ago, Willi Dansgaard and colleagues discovered several abrupt climate change
events in Greenland during the last glacial period. Since then, several ice cores retrieved …

Process‐explicit models reveal pathway to extinction for woolly mammoth using pattern‐oriented validation

DA Fordham, SC Brown, HR Akçakaya… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pathways to extinction start long before the death of the last individual. However, causes of
early stage population declines and the susceptibility of small residual populations to …

Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce

L Betti, RM Beyer, ER Jones, A Eriksson… - Nature Human …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by the rapid dispersal of Near Eastern
farmers who, over a period of 3,500 years, brought food production to the furthest corners of …

[HTML][HTML] A simulated Northern Hemisphere terrestrial climate dataset for the past 60,000 years

E Armstrong, PO Hopcroft, PJ Valdes - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
We present a continuous land-based climate reconstruction dataset extending back 60 kyr
from 0 BP (1950) at 0.5° resolution on a monthly timestep for 0° N to 90° N. It has been …

[HTML][HTML] Following the niche: the differential impact of the last glacial maximum on four European ungulates

M Leonardi, F Boschin, P Boscato, A Manica - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of future global changes on species requires a better understanding of
the ecological niche dynamics in response to climate; the large climatic fluctuations of the …

Archaeogenomic analysis of the first steps of Neolithization in Anatolia and the Aegean

GM Kılınç, D Koptekin, Ç Atakuman… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Neolithic transition in west Eurasia occurred in two main steps: the gradual
development of sedentism and plant cultivation in the Near East and the subsequent spread …

A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal

MJ Wooller, É Saulnier-Talbot… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Palaeoenvironmental records from the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge (BLB) covering
the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present are needed to document changing …

Late Quaternary horses in Eurasia in the face of climate and vegetation change

M Leonardi, F Boschin, K Giampoudakis, RM Beyer… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Wild horses thrived across Eurasia until the Last Glacial Maximum to collapse after the
beginning of the Holocene. The interplay of climate change, species adaptability to different …

Complete taxon sampling of the avian genus Pica (magpies) reveals ancient relictual populations and synchronous Late‐Pleistocene demographic expansion across …

G Song, R Zhang, P Alström, M Irestedt… - Journal of Avian …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have suggested that bird populations in east Asia were less affected by
Pleistocene climatic fluctuations than those in Europe and North America. However, this is …