Paleoclimatic setting for Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Paleoclimatic setting for Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

A paleoclimatic hypothesis is presented to account for the evolution and eventual replacement of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. Neandertal populations in the European Late Pleistocene were largely isolated by geographic barriers. Populations of modern Homo sapiens replaced Neandertals at 34000 years...

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Veröffentlicht in:Die Naturwissenschaften 1982-01, Vol.69 (1), p.29-33
Hauptverfasser: Boaz, N T, Ninkovich, D, Rossignol-Strick, M
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Africa, Northern
Animals
Asia, Western
Biological Evolution
Climate
Europe
Haplorhini
History of medicine
History, Ancient
Humans
Paleontology
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Zusammenfassung:A paleoclimatic hypothesis is presented to account for the evolution and eventual replacement of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. Neandertal populations in the European Late Pleistocene were largely isolated by geographic barriers. Populations of modern Homo sapiens replaced Neandertals at 34000 years ago, near the end of the relatively cold oxygen isotope stage 3. These population were pushed into Europe by conditions brought on by increasing aridity affecting North Africa and southwestern Asia, and their dispersal was facilitated by lowered sea level.
ISSN:0028-1042
1432-1904
DOI:10.1007/BF00441096