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 …

Paleoanthropologists have long speculated about the role of environmental change in
sha** human evolution in Africa. In recent years, drill cores of late Neogene lacustrine …

Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

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

Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates
about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we …

Hominin fire use in the early Pleistocene has been debated since the early 1970s when
consolidated reddened sediment patches were identified at FxJj20 East and Main, Koobi …

Evidence for Quaternary climate change in East Africa has been derived from outcrops on
land and lake cores and from marine dust, leaf wax, and pollen records. These data have …

The influence of climate change on hominin evolution is much debated. Two issues hamper
our understanding of this process: the limited hominin fossil record, and incomplete …

Understanding eastern African paleoclimate is critical for contextualizing early human
evolution, adaptation, and dispersal, yet Pleistocene climate of this region and its governing …

Abstract Sediments from the Magadi Basin (south Kenya Rift) preserve a one-million-year
palaeoenvironmental record that reflects interactions between climatic, volcanic and tectonic …