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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Harvard Climate Seminar
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SUMMARY:Harvard Climate Seminar
DESCRIPTION:<p><em><strong>“Climate and the Peopling of the World”</strong></em> by <a href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~peter/site/Home.html" title="">Peter de Menocal (Columbia University)</a></p><p>Summary:</p><p>One of the most puzzling questions in modern human origins has been why the dispersal of modern <em>Homo sapiens</em> out of Africa was so delayed after their first appearance in East African fossil record near  ~200 ka (ka, thousands of years ago). Fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence indicate that early migrations into the Levant and Arabian Peninsula occurred around 120-90 ka, but the global dispersal of our kind did not occur until after 70-60 ka. New paleoclimate records and coupled climate-vegetation-population modeling constrain this narrative, highlighting the central importance of high- and low-latitude climate interactions in regulating the flows of humanity out of Africa that populated the world.</p><p> </p>
LOCATION:Haller Hall (Geology Museum 102)
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTEND:20161102T200000Z
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