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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Examine charts how north Africa’s local weather modified 5,000 years in the past | UCL Information

Local weather tipping factors can both outcome from a gradual however linear growth, or can “flicker” between two secure climatic states that alternate earlier than a remaining, everlasting transition happens, finds a brand new examine that includes a UCL researcher. The examine, printed in Nature Communications, confirms this alternating transition for the top of the…

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South Africa: World’s Oldest Termite Mounds Found in South Africa – and They’ve Been Storing Valuable Carbon for 1000’s of Years

The panorama alongside the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand area is dotted with hundreds of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the floor space. These heuweltjies, because the locals name them (the phrase means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground community of tunnels and nests of the southern…

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‘I needed to see tales about our expertise’: For 25 years Mizna has helped artists make cultural connections

At a dance studio in Minneapolis just lately, Leila Awadallah mirrored on what Mizna means to her.  “When I discovered Mizna, that’s once I unlocked this portal into this lovely world of Arab Individuals and of tales from nations that I longed to know deeper,” Awadallah stated.  The choreographer and dancer is half white, half…

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