Abstract The Late Pleistocene (∼ 125–12 thousand years ago) record of eastern Africa is
critical for assessing the origin, evolution and history of human behavior. Faunal remains are …

Present-day African ecosystems serve as referential models for conceptualizing the
environmental context of early hominin evolution, but the degree to which modern …

It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

Much debate has revolved around the question of whether the mode of evolutionary and
ecological turnover in the fossil record of African mammals was continuous or pulsed, and …

Fossil abundance data can reveal ecological dynamics underpinning taxonomic declines.
Using fossil dental metrics, we reconstructed body mass and mass–abundance distributions …

The opening and closing of the equatorial East African forest belt during the Quaternary is
thought to have influenced the biogeographic histories of early modern humans and fauna …

Prehistoric and recent extinctions of large-bodied terrestrial herbivores had significant and
lasting impacts on Earth's ecosystems due to the loss of their distinct trait combinations. The …

Late Pleistocene sedimentary, biogeochemical, and fossil data from the Lake Victoria basin
(the largest lake in Africa) suggest that its reduction or desiccation during periods of …

Ecological research often assumes that species are adapted to their current climatic
environments. However, climate fluctuations over geologic timescales have influenced …

Background: The dental characteristics of large plant-eating mammals, such as hypsodonty,
quite accurately describe present and past climatic conditions worldwide. However, several …