Now that's interesting Because if the Tibetan Plateau only rose 2-3 million years ago that coincides rather well with the onset of the Pleistocene Glacial Epoch (which we're still in) - so uplift in that region could well have been instrumental in pushing Earth into it's current Ice House phase.

Of course, the same period also coincides with our ancestors coming down from the trees (probably as a result of climatic change in Africa) .... so maybe the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau is directly responsible for homo sapien!

That's pretty cool, but for some reason the link isn't working for me.

Just another example of how we have been wrong, and there is so much more to discover. Thanks for posting it.

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