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In article <Bzrn4H.GMq@newcastle.ac.uk> w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:

	Material relating to  climate  and its impact on human evolution
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>       It has been argued that during the long 100,000 periods humans
>   branched into different subspecies or races and some were more 
>   successful than others at specialising.  Once the climate changed 
>    again many/most of the specialist were at a disadvantage to the 
>   less specialist races and were more likely to die out.  
>      
>        A premium was put on adaptability and it was modern humans
>    with their mental, not physical, specialisation which "won".
>    Note though that without the repeated climate changes one of the
>    less intelligent competitors would have driven them to extinction.
>

	If memory serves, the second most numerous  primate is the
baboon,  who are also  pretty bright  and much  less dependent on
a  specific environment than apes like  chimpanzees  or many
monkey species.

							James Nicoll