In fact, the Quaternary is often considered the "Age of Humans." Homo erectus appeared in Africa at the start of the period, and as time marched on the hominid line evolved bigger brains and ...

The story of human evolution is more intricate than ever, especially in eastern Asia during the Late Quaternary period, approximately 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. Recent fossil discoveries are ...

The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary period and to propose how it dispersed from the Tibetan plateau to the Iberian Peninsula ...

We are investigating the causes of variation in mammal body size during the Quaternary period by comparing ice-age mammal species from the past 750,000 years in Britain. The Quaternary is the most ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to 5,000 years ago ... audited radiocarbon dates for ...

Since then, conditions have been warmer. This current warm phase is known as the Holocene. The Holocene and Pleistocene are part of the Quaternary Period of Earth's history.