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The Role of Mountainous Terrain in Early Human Evolution

Exploring How Diverse Mountain Ecosystems Shaped Hominin Adaptation

Oct 15, 2024
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Mountainous regions have long attracted early human populations, but the reasons behind this preference are becoming clearer thanks to new research. A recent study published in Science Advances1 by scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University reveals that the diverse ecosystems within these terrains played a cruc…

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