Schlagwort: Climate
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New population model defines four phases of human colonisation of Europe
Researchers from the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘Our Way Model’ to understand how the first anatomically modern humans colonised Europe. The results were published in Nature Communications under the title ‘Reconstruction of human dispersal during Aurignacian on pan-European scale’. Cologne, September 04th, 2024: Scientists at the…
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Sperm competition an additional reason for the rapid extinction of Neanderthals
Coexistence between Neanderthals and modern humans is similar to the competition-exclusion principle. Modern humans assert their way of life more quickly. Obviously, Neanderthals disappeared quite quickly. So far, there have been some arguments in favour of this rapid disappearance. Now, however, with sperm competition, another, perhaps even the most important reason becomes clear. Koblenz, September,…
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Ice Age Europeans Climate change caused dramatic decline in hunter-gatherer populations
Tübingen, 22 August 2024 – Large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate change significantly affected the demography of prehistoric humans Using the largest dataset of human fossils from Ice Age Europe to date and a new method based on a machine learning algorithm, an international research team shows how…