Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of Michigan research shows. Study: Wandering of the Auroral Oval 41,000 Years Ago (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq7275) University of Michigan researcher Agnit Mukhopadhyay reconstructed what the magnetic field around Earth may have looked like during the Laschamps excursion, a time period between 42,200… Learn more about Sunscreen, clothes and caves may have helped Homo sapiens survive 41,000 years ago >