Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

The integration of phylogenetics, phylogeography and palaeoenvironmental studies is
providing major insights into the historical forces that have shaped the Earth's biomes. Yet …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Как показано серией независимых расчётов, на протяжении миллиардов лет природа и
затем общество развивались по определённым векторам в режиме последовательного …

About 3 million years ago (Ma), the I sthmus of P anama joined the A mericas, forming a land
bridge over which inhabitants of each A merica invaded the other—the G reat A merican B …

Large herbivorous vertebrates have strong interactions with vegetation, affecting the
structure, composition and dynamics of plant communities in many ways. Living large …

Ascertaining the timing of the peopling of Europe, after the first out-of-Africa demographic
expansion at the end of the Pliocene, is of great interest to paleoanthropologists. One of the …

Abstract Explanations for the Upper Pleistocene extinction of megafauna from Sahul
(Australia and New Guinea) remain unresolved. Extinction hypotheses have advanced …

Around 88 large vertebrate taxa disappeared from Sahul sometime during the Pleistocene,
with the majority of losses (54 taxa) clearly taking place within the last 400,000 years. The …

The south‐western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate
Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia …