Today on SAPIENS Two anthropologists explain how humans managed to not just survive but dominate northern climates despite evolutionary origins in—and hence, biological predispositions to—warmer environments.
would have had to travel about 800 kilometers south to make a meaningful difference.
It’s hard to imagine hominins surviving those ancient Norfolk winters without fire or warm clothing. Yet the fact the hominins were means they must have found a way to survive the cold, so who knows what archaeologists will find in the future.Sites from more recent settlements, such as Boxgrove in West Sussex, southern England, offer more clues about how ancient hominins survived northern climates. The
dates to nearly 500,000 years ago, when the climate deteriorated toward one of the coldest periods in human history.
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