A
paper in this week's issue of
Science by Judd et al has a reconstruction of the lasts 485 million years of Earth's climate (click to enlarge):
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I haven't had time to read the paper yet, but I'll try to this weekend. Anyway these is pretty cool big science.
Is it a coincidence that the emergence of intelligent life coincides with an ice age climate?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I don't know the answer but would like to. If intelligent, human-ish life developed and thrived in Africa over the last 5 M yrs, they wouldn't be very susceptible to the ice cycles. Right? (I don't know the effect of the ice cycles on Africa.)
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