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Closing of the Indonesian seaway precursor to African aridificaton 3-4 million years ago.


Mark Cane, together with Peter Molnar, have concluded that the closing of the Indonesia Seaway in the last 3-5 million years has effected the aridification of East Africa (when and where humans evolved), and may have provided the switch that initiated the cooling leading to the ice ages.

Cane, M. A., Molnar, P., 2001: Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3-4 million years ago. Nature, 411, 157-162.