Hominin, any member of the zoological “tribe” Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens, or human beings.
The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, some of which are now quite well known from fossil remains
Researchers utilized a deep-sea sediment core to examine temperature history in Europe.
The temperature data covered a span of 800,000 to 1.8 million years.
The study aimed to assess the geographic range of hominin species using the temperature record.
The research focused on the timeframe spanning from 800,000 to 1.8 million years ago.
Hominin species are the group to be analyzed in relation to the temperature conditions.
Starting approximately 1.1 million years ago, extreme glacial conditions emerged.
These severe cold periods would have likely made the Mediterranean region too frigid for hominins to survive.
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