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Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages

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Much progress has been made towards understanding what caused the waxing and the waning of the great ice sheets, but a complete theory of the ice ages is still elusive.

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Figure 1: Ice-age climate and solar variability.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

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  1. Maureen Raymo is in the Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.,

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  2. Peter Huybers is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.,

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