Discover: Anthropologist to study how rapid temperature increase affected people 5,000 years ago

Release Date: October 3, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article in Discover magazine about how climate change has shaped humanity reports Ezra Zubrow, professor of anthropology, is launching a project in areas of Russia, Finland and Canada aimed at understanding how the people in those locations adapted to a rapid temperature rise that occurred about 5,000 years ago.

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