Advanced time–series analysis to provide a spatiotemporal framework for the evolution, expansion and technological innovation of Homo sapiens

考古学、形态学和遗传学研究结果表明，智人是从生殖上半孤立的种群中出现和进化的，通过随气候变化而变化的绿色走廊和网络中零星的基因流连接在一起。该提案寻求资金，以建立一个时空古气候框架，以测试目前关于我们物种多区域起源的假设。该项目解决的主要研究问题是：（1）时空气候波动如何影响人类进化、扩张和创新？（2）景观的自然特征如何影响人类的进化、扩张和创新？该项目的目标可能会导致对环境变化的重要见解发生在同一时间的物种形成，大脑扩张，传播的H。智人走出非洲和文化创新。该项目的定量重建方法还将提供必要的数据，以验证和改进目前的早期人类生活条件生态模型。研究结果还将有助于扩大对非洲被忽视地区的古人类学调查，这些地区至少有时为人类提供了有利的条件。

The archaeological, morphological and genetic findings show that Homo sapiens emerged and evolved from reproductively semi-isolated populations, connected by sporadic gene flow through green corridors and networks which change in the course of climate change. This proposal seeks funding to create a spatiotemporal paleoclimatic framework for testing current hypotheses about a multiregional origin of our species. The principal research questions addressed by the project are: (1) How do spatiotemporal climate fluctuations affect human evolution, expansion and innovation? and (2) How does the physical character of the landscape affect human evolution, expansion and innovation? The project's goals may lead to important insights into the environmental changes occurring at the same time as speciation, brain expansion, dispersal of H. sapiens out of Africa and cultural innovations. The project's quantitative reconstructive approach will also provide the necessary data to validate and improve current ecological models for the living conditions of early humans. The results will also help to expand paleoanthropological investigations into neglected areas of Africa that at least at times provided favorable conditions for humans.