Ocean circulation would have contributed to the first colonization of North America
According to an international study involving researchers from the LSCE (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), a significant change in ocean currents in the North Pacific would have favored the first human migration from Asia to North America, at the end of the last ice age.
Accounting for nearly half of all water in our oceans, the Pacific is a vast reservoir of heat and CO2.
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