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Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene


Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene

An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

von: René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer

53,49 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 08.09.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9781402030987
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 356

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Beschreibungen

Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene.- Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution.- African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change.- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa.- Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits.- Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia.- Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments.- The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery.- Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments.- Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania.- The paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli.- Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi.- Finale and future.
Synthesizes large amounts of faunal data Presents the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene

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