Climate Change And Human Evolution: Did Climate 'Make Us'?

NPR:

There's a plan afoot among evolutionary scientists to launch a big new project -- to look back in time and find out how climate change over millions of years affected human evolution.

Anthropologist Rick Potts, who heads the human origins department at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, has been pushing the idea that "climate made us" for years.

Read the whole story: NPR

Comments

[N0NDescript0]

04:47 PM on 03/25/2010

Of course climate change affected human evolution; adapting to the environment is a large part of evolution.

The question is not "did it?", but "how much?".

[cstmrsrvc]

09:45 AM on 03/24/2010

how could climate change have shaped evolution , when the climate fixers and warmists only think the climate has been changing since the birth of the SUV

[Steelheadangler]

10:01 AM on 03/24/2010

No climate scientist believes that! What is believed is that this is the first time (perhaps) that humans have caused climate change, not that it has never happened before.

[realpolitic]

02:48 PM on 03/23/2010

How could evolution have shaped us when the climate change deniers insist we have only inhabited the earth for 6,000 years. They are convinced of it.

[scottyknows]

08:14 PM on 03/24/2010

Are you holdin' and beholdin' to the very scientific theory that order comes from chaos?

I am not holdin' my breath for an intelligent response.

[realpolitic]

11:41 PM on 03/24/2010

Who cares? Are you taking a poll?

[N0NDescript0]

04:49 PM on 03/25/2010

"order comes from chaos" is a scientific theory?

For some easily discernible reason, I don't believe you have any idea what you're talking about.