CARTA: Climate and Evolution: Jean-Jacques Hublin: The Climatic Framework of Neandertal Evolution

Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on the climatic framework of Neandertal evolution. Recorded on 5/15/2015. [9/2015] [Show ID: 29689]

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0:00 Introduction
1:31 The following is presented by
4:27 A Westem (?) Eurasian Group
6:17 Climate and body proportions
9:12 Is Neandertal Facial Morphology Cold Adapted?
10:17 Climate and Nasal Morphology
12:49 Paleogenetics of Skin Color
14:20 The First Neanderthals
15:18 Neandertals/sapiens separation time
18:11 Non Metrical Dental Features
18:50 The "Middle Pleistocene Revolution"
21:05 Did climatic changes run Neanderthals to extinction?