Fossil apes and human evolution

S Almécija, AS Hammond, NE Thompson, KD Pugh… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Ever since the writings of Darwin and Huxley, humans' place in nature
relative to apes (nonhuman hominoids) and the geographic origins of the human lineage …

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?

RIM Dunbar, S Shultz - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much
attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main …

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

R Marchant, S Richer, O Boles, C Capitani… - Earth-Science …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions: linking terrestrial and marine realms

MJ Head, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

Aridity and hominin environments

SA Blumenthal, NE Levin, FH Brown, JP Brugal… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Aridification is often considered a major driver of long-term ecological change and hominin
evolution in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene; however, this hypothesis remains …

Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution

JT Faith, A Du, AK Behrensmeyer, B Davies… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021‏ - cell.com
A central goal of paleoanthropology is understanding the role of ecological change in
hominin evolution. Over the past several decades researchers have expanded the hominin …

[ספר][B] The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

SL Kuhn - 2020‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods

KM Grant, EJ Rohling, T Westerhold, M Zabel… - Quaternary Science …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Mediterranean sediments are valuable archives of both African monsoon variability and
higher-latitude climate processes, and can also be used to provide an environmental context …

Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Present-day African ecosystems serve as referential models for conceptualizing the
environmental context of early hominin evolution, but the degree to which modern …