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Extreme climates may have driven Middle Pleistocene hominins towards (positive) assortative mating and evolution of bigger brains, according to economic model of climate change impacts

08.02.23 | PLOS

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Extreme climates may have driven Middle Pleistocene hominins towards (positive) assortative mating and evolution of bigger brains, according to economic model of climate change impacts

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287964

Article Title: An economic model and evidence of the evolution of human intelligence in the Middle Pleistocene: Climate change and assortative mating

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The author received no specific funding for this work.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0287964

An economic model and evidence of the evolution of human intelligence in the Middle Pleistocene: Climate change and assortative mating

2-Aug-2023

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

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APA:
PLOS. (2023, August 2). Extreme climates may have driven Middle Pleistocene hominins towards (positive) assortative mating and evolution of bigger brains, according to economic model of climate change impacts. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LQ425JN8/extreme-climates-may-have-driven-middle-pleistocene-hominins-towards-positive-assortative-mating-and-evolution-of-bigger-brains-according-to-economic-model-of-climate-change-impacts.html
MLA:
"Extreme climates may have driven Middle Pleistocene hominins towards (positive) assortative mating and evolution of bigger brains, according to economic model of climate change impacts." Brightsurf News, Aug. 2 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LQ425JN8/extreme-climates-may-have-driven-middle-pleistocene-hominins-towards-positive-assortative-mating-and-evolution-of-bigger-brains-according-to-economic-model-of-climate-change-impacts.html.