Constructing robust climate proxies to explore human and primate evolution

构建强大的气候代理来探索人类和灵长类动物的进化

• 批准号: DP210101913
• 负责人: Prof Tanya Smith
• 金额: $ 23.81万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-03-29 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP210101913
• 关键词: Constructing; robust; climate; proxies; explore

This project will build the requisite foundation to resolve whether variable climate change sparked the origins of humans and our great ape forebears. Scientists endeavor to recover ancient environmental records to examine this influential idea, but have lacked the means to do so at the scale of a human lifespan. This multidisciplinary effort will harness groundbreaking advances pioneered by our collaborative team to produce the first fine-scaled climate proxies from the teeth of humans’ closest living relatives. Documenting climate variation across diverse landscapes promises to transform studies of prehistoric ecosystems and past behaviour from omnipresent fossilised teeth, providing further insight into humanity’s unprecedented success.

该项目将建立必要的基础，以解决气候变化是否引发了人类和我们的类人猿祖先的起源。科学家奋进恢复古代环境记录来研究这一有影响力的想法，但缺乏在人类寿命范围内这样做的手段。这项多学科的努力将利用我们的合作团队开创的突破性进展，从人类最近的亲属的牙齿中产生第一个精细的气候代理。记录不同景观的气候变化有望改变对史前生态系统和过去行为的研究，从无所不在的牙齿中，进一步了解人类前所未有的成功。