VUB - Free University of Brussels
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (BE1) · Belgium
ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Pliocene Hominin Dispersal to southern Africa: Choice or Chance?
Modern humans are unique in their ability to adapt to, and to thrive in, different environments. This trait facilitated their dispersal out-of-Africa to higher latitudes, i.e. to temperate and seasonal habitats, during the Pleistocene. However, there are Plio-Pleistocene hominins at higher latitudes in South Africa (SA) from ~3.7Ma onwards. Did human behavioural/physiological flexibility evolve early in our evolutionary history? Alternatively, did Pliocene hominins occupy such temperate zones due to different palaeoclimatic conditions in deep time and/or due to stochastic events? To untangle these questions this project will: (1) determine the geomorphological and palaeoecological changes…
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