Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210101913

构建稳健的气候指标来探索人类和灵长类动物的进化。这个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。科学家们努力恢复古代环境记录，以检验这一有影响力的想法，但缺乏在人类寿命的范围内做到这一点的手段。这一多学科的努力将利用我们的合作团队开创的突破性进展，从人类最亲近的亲属的牙齿中生产出第一个精细规模的气候指标。记录不同景观的气候变化有望改变对史前生态系统和无处不在的化石牙齿过去行为的研究，为人们提供对人类的进一步洞察&S取得了前所未有的成功。

Constructing robust climate proxies to explore human and primate evolution. 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.