Climate Change Impacts Human Evolution

Most scientists agree that the Earth is undergoing significant climate change, partly due to the greenhouse gases produced when fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal are burned.

However, earth scientists know that the planetary environment has always been in flux. Some of those changes have caused extinctions on a massive scale. However, for humans, higher apes and other large mammals, environmental fluctuations have sometimes been a goad to adaptation.

Geologists and climatologists, who specialize in the physical earth sciences, came together with biologists, paleontologists and anthropologists, who mainly concern themselves with life on Earth, for a symposium at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, to discuss the question, “Did Climate Change Shape Human Evolution?”

VOA News

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2 Responses to Climate Change Impacts Human Evolution

  1. This is an elaborate expression of a simple identity: “change” is “change”.
    “Climate change” is a change of the environment, and “evolution” is a genetic change in the population of organisms inhabiting said environment. One change drives the other.

  2. I agree, the concept of mann made climate change causes incredable stupidity in alarmist scientists.

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