[HTML][HTML] East African climate pulses and early human evolution

MA Maslin, CM Brierley, AM Milner, S Shultz… - Quaternary Science …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

Hominin evolution in settings of strong environmental variability

R Potts - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Investigations into how climate change shaped human evolution have begun to focus on
environmental dynamics, ie, the nature and tempo of climate and landscape variability, an …

African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene

BM Peter - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004‏ - Elsevier
Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

A multi-calibrated mitochondrial phylogeny of extant Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) and the importance of the fossil record to systematics

F Bibi - BMC evolutionary biology, 2013‏ - Springer
Background Molecular phylogenetics has provided unprecedented resolution in the
ruminant evolutionary tree. However, molecular age estimates using only one or a few (often …

Flaked stones and old bones: biological and cultural evolution at the dawn of technology

T Plummer - American journal of physical anthropology, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo

R Bobe, AK Behrensmeyer - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2004‏ - Elsevier
The relationship between climatic change and human evolution can be framed in terms of
three major hypotheses. A modern version of the long-held savanna hypothesis posits that …

Cenozoic vegetation, climate changes and hominid evolution in tropical Africa

R Bonnefille - Global and Planetary Change, 2010‏ - Elsevier
This paper reviews information on past vegetation of tropical Africa during the Cenozoic,
focused upon the last 10Ma, a time spanning hominid record in Central and East Africa …

High-and low-latitude forcing of Plio-Pleistocene East African climate and human evolution

MH Trauth, MA Maslin, AL Deino, MR Strecker… - Journal of Human …, 2007‏ - Elsevier
The late Cenozoic climate of East Africa is punctuated by episodes of short, alternating
periods of extreme wetness and aridity, superimposed on a regime of subdued moisture …

Macrovertebrate Paleontology and the Pliocene Habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus

TD White, SH Ambrose, G Suwa, DF Su, D DeGusta… - science, 2009‏ - science.org
A diverse assemblage of large mammals is spatially and stratigraphically associated with
Ardipithecus ramidus at Aramis. The most common species are tragelaphine antelope and …

Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution

R Bobe, AK Behrensmeyer, RE Chapman - Journal of human evolution, 2002‏ - Elsevier
Global change during the late Pliocene was manifested in declining temperatures,
increased amplitude of climate cycles, and shifts in the periodicity of orbital climate forcing …