Peter deMenocal, a Columbia University paleoceanographer who coauthored the NRC report, says «our study of human evolution in the context of major changes in African climate indicates that our species was honed by climate.» (discovermagazine.com)
Timothy Bralower, a Pennsylvania State University paleoceanographer who was not involved with this work, applauded the researchers for their «innovative way of thinking.» (washingtonpost.com)
This is what University of South Carolina paleoceanographer Kelly Gibson and colleagues illustrate in a recent paper, which demonstrates the influence of rapid climate change on marine ecosystems off the coast of Venezuela tens of thousands of years ago and shows how changes there were accompanied by simultaneous changes globally. (sciencedaily.com)