February 27, 2012

Will Climate Change Shrink the Species?

Jeffrey Kluger, Time Magazine


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If you think there are no new reasons to get freaked out by climate change, try this: There’s at least a theoretical possibility that a warmer and warmer world could lead to tinier and tinier humans. That’s the inevitable conclusion of a just-published study of Siferhippus sandae, the littlest horse that ever lived. . .

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