His love affairs with Neanderthals enabled Sapiens the African to adapt more easily to the cold of European countries.
It is also believed that it is from a distant intersection with the Denisovans that the Tibetans inherited their ability to brave the rigors of the Himalayas and mountain sickness.
To face the current rise in temperatures, modern humans, the last survivors of their kind, will have to fend for themselves.
Why not shrink?
This is what the American paleontologist Steve Brusatte suggests in his latest book The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals (“The triumph and the reign of mammals”, in French), the French translation of which will be published by Quanto editions in October 2023.
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