Response to the Technical Comment by Andrea Picin et al.

Abstract

Our study on the exact timing, and potential climatic, environmental and evolutionary consequences of the Laschamps Geomagnetic Excursion has generated a novel hypothesis that geomagnetism represents an unrecognised driver in environmental and evolutionary change (1). It is important that this is tested with new data, and encouragingly, none of the studies presented by Picin et al. (2) undermine our model