A large-scale climate simulation combined with fossil evidence shows how shifts in temperature and rainfall guided human migration and evolution. Changes driven by Earth’s orbital cycles altered ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...