Sentences with phrase «lakes decreased in size»

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Subsequently, the underlying trend towards increasing brain size in Homo is most strongly correlated with both decreases in lake presence and high levels of dust deposition in the Mediterranean ODP967 record (Table 3), indicating drier conditions in East Africa [43].

The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.