Generalist Specialist Illustration (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Generalist Specialist Illustration

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Our species is ecologically unique in its ability to occupy, and specialize in, a variety of different environments, as demonstrated when it began to colonize the entire planet between approximately 300 and 60 thousand years ago.

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Image by John Klausmeyer, concept by Brian Stewart, University of Michigan. Aerial view of reindeer herd from zanskar / iStock.

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