Researchers elucidate biogeographic context of human evolution in East African Rift System

Sedimentary exposures from Lake Turkana in Kenya, the place a few of the studied fossils originated. Credit score: I. A. Lazagabaster Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, a Ramón y Cajal researcher on the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is a part of the worldwide workforce that has printed a research of the biogeographic…

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Lengthy-term biotic homogenization within the East African Rift System over the past 6 million years of hominin evolution

Religion, J. T. et al. Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution. Developments Ecol. Evol. 36, 797–807 (2021). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Religion, J. T., Rowan, J. & Du, A. Late Cenozoic faunal and ecological change in Africa. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-031621-114105 (2024). Vrba, E. S. in Ancestors: The Laborious Proof (ed. Delson,…

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