A large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate change significantly influenced the demography of prehistoric humans.
New research based on extensive human fossil records from Ice Age Europe shows how ancient populations dealt with dramatic climate shifts. By analyzing dental data with a “Archaeologists have long debated the influence of climatic changes and the associated new environmental conditions on the demography of hunter-gatherers at that time. Due to the limited number of fossils available and their often poor molecular preservation for ancient DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn8129