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 …

The decline of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 65 million years (Ma) resulted in the
'carbon dioxide–starvation'of terrestrial ecosystems and led to the widespread distribution of …

Approximately one-third of the Earth's vegetative cover comprises savannas, grasslands,
and other grass-dominated ecosystems. Paleobotanical, paleofaunal, and stable carbon …

A contemporary classic about love now completely revised and updated. From love at first
sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and" slow love," Dr. Helen Fisher, the biological …

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Twenty-five years have elapsed since Moreau (1952) completed his outstanding
essay,'Africa since the Mesozoic: with particular reference to certain biological problems' …

Paleogenetics is an emerging field that resurrects ancestral proteins from now-extinct
organisms to test, in the laboratory, models of protein function based on natural history and …

Fossil plants provide data on climate, community composition and structure, all of which are
relevant to the definition and recognition of biomes. Macrofossils reflect local vegetation …

Ecological diversity provides a means of analysing the community structure of fossil
mammalian faunas in order to obtain information on the habitat of the fauna. As a basis for …

The continuity through the past 300 million years of key tropical sediment types, namely
coals, evaporites, reefs and carbonates, is examined. Physical controls for their …