Milankovitch Cycles & Early Human Species

A History of Mankind (2)

Hominids – including apes, chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as humans – are tropical species. They all evolved in warm climates with large trees full of nourishment and, when they jumped from one continent to another, they remained resolutely close to the Equator. There are a few cases in which this rule has been broken, and almost all of them corres…