The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the earliest known hominids appear in the fossil record.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Timothy Herbert
IBES Affiliate Faculty, Henry L. Doherty Professor of Oceanography, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests
El Niño climate cycle, Ocean temperature change, Ocean carbon cycle, Natural climate variability
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Timothy Herbert, an IBES Fellow and Professor of Oceanography and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, provided commentary in this article.
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