Dr Robyn Pickering

Lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town

Sciences & Technology

Human evolutionary history takes a rain check

Dating the rock layers in between, rather than the actual fossils in Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’ is shedding new light on the time record and how early humans adapted to a changing climate.

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