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The Texas Department of Transportation (Tx-DOT) began seal coating this week on more than 365 miles of roadways as part of its preventative maintenance project within its Lubbock District.

Dispersal of people occurred during some of the highest temperatures in the late Pleistocene, which also would have featured higher humidity, the ancient pollen record suggested.

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The pollen data showed that warming temperatures supported forests that expanded into Siberia and facilitated early human migration there.

Climatologists Discover First Homo Sapiens in Southern Siberia Uncovering Evidence of Early Human Habitation Climatologists from Japan and the USA, during

More tree pollen could have led to more Pleistocene-era people living in Eurasia.

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More tree pollen could have led to more Pleistocene-era people living in Eurasia.

A new study appearing in Science Advances compares Pleistocene vegetation communities around Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, to the oldest archeological traces of Homo sapiens in the region. The researchers use the “remarkable evidence” to tell a compelling story from 45,000-50,000 years ago with new detail: how the first humans migrated across Europe and Asia.

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