Abstract
How did environmental history, particularly climate, affect the evolution of our hominin ancestors and closely related species? The formulation of testable hypotheses about the climate‐evolution connection is impeded by limited numbers of hominin specimens and the geographic and temporal gaps that characterize their fossil record. Additionally, knowledge of Earth's environmental history close to these fossil finds remains limited. Scientists interested in the problem currently make use of temporally and geographically discontinuous outcrop exposures at the fossil sites, and/or deep‐sea or lake paleoclimate records geographically distant from the hominin fossils, to address the Earth history side of this equation.
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