<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zan, Jinbo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Louys, Julien</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dennell, Robin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Petraglia, Michael</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ning, Wenxiao</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fang, Xiaomin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhang, Weilin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hu, Zhe</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mid-Pleistocene aridity and landscape shifts promoted Palearctic hominin dispersals</style></title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nature Communications</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024/11/27</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54767-0#citeas</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">15</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10279</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2041-1723</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Population expansions and contractions out of and into Africa since the early Pleistocene have influenced the course of human evolution. While local- and regional-scale investigations have provided insights into the drivers of Eurasian hominin dispersals, a continental-scale and integrated study of hominin-environmental interactions across Palearctic Eurasia has been lacking. Here, we report high-resolution (up to &amp;sim;5-10 kyr sample interval) carbon isotope time series of loess deposits in Central Asia and northwest China, a region dominated by westerly winds, providing unique paleoecological and paleoclimatic records for over ~3.6&amp;thinsp;Ma. These data, combined with further syntheses of Pleistocene paleontological and archaeological records and spatio-temporal distributions of Eurasian eolian deposits and river terraces, demonstrate a pronounced transformation of landscapes around the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition. Increased climate amplitude and aridity fluctuations over this period led to the widespread formation of more open habitats, river terraces, and desert-loess landscapes, pushing hominins to range more widely and find solutions to increasingly challenging environments. Mid-Pleistocene climatic and ecological transitions, and the formation of modern desert and loess landscapes and river networks, emerge as critical events during the dispersal of early hominins in Palearctic Eurasia.&lt;/p&gt;
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