An excerpt from my book, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change which
involves paleoanthropology, paleoclimate, and considerations from neurobiology and evolutionary biology.
The study offers new insight into the mysterious death of one of
paleoanthropology's most iconic individuals, and the scientists
involved say it may give clues to how much time her species, Australopithecus afarensis, still spent in the trees.