The hypothesis of a connection between the onset (or intensification) of Northern
Hemisphere Glaciation, the stepwise increase in African aridity (and climate variability), and …

Past climates and environments experienced by the Saharo-Arabian desert belt are of prime
importance for palaeoclimatic and palaeoanthropological research. On orbital timescales …

Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing
the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia 1, 2, 3, 4. Archaeological …

Whilst an African origin of modern humans is well established, the timings and routes of their
expansions into Eurasia are the subject of heated debate, due to the scarcity of fossils and …

Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

In this study, we synthesize terrestrial and marine proxy records, spanning the past 620 ky,
to decipher pan-African climate variability and its drivers and potential linkages to hominin …

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 …

There is growing concern on the survival of Mediterranean forests under the projected near-
future droughts as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Here we determine the …

Dark organic-rich layers (sapropels) have accumulated in Mediterranean sediments since
the Miocene due to deep-sea dysoxia and enhanced carbon burial at times of intensified …

Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates
about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we …