“How did humans get here” is the simple question Dr Tim Waring, associate professor at the University of Maine in the US, set out to answer in a recent paper focused on climate change. “If we understand the processes by which we have arrived at having such a major impact on the global biosphere, then we can try to solve the problems that we are facing,” he told Euronews Next. Waring works on climate change through the lens of cultural evolution, a field of study at the intersection of biology and “all social sciences”. His most recent paper analyses how human evolution might prevent us from so…