Stable carbon isotope studies suggest that early hominins may have diversified their diet as
early as 3.76 Ma. Early Pliocene hominins, including Australopithecus anamensis, had diets …

The African continent was subjected to periodic climatic shifts during the Pliocene and
Pleistocene. These habitat changes greatly affected the evolutionary processes and tempo …

The early Pliocene site of Kanapoi (Turkana Basin, Kenya) has a large, diverse vertebrate
sample that contains the earliest representatives of the hominin genus Australopithecus …

In both jaw geometry and molar morphology, eutherian carnivores (order Carnivora) as a
whole display greater diversity (plasticity in evolution from the primitive type) than marsupial …

The correlation between diet and dental topography is of importance to paleontologists
seeking to diagnose ecological adaptations in extinct taxa. Although the subject is well …

In the study of mammalian adaptation to the environment, teeth are of primary importance
due to their role as one of the direct interaction points between an individual and its …

Objectives The disappearance of the North American plesiadapoids (stem primates, or
plesiadapiforms) in the latest Paleocene has been attributed to competition with rodents …

There are comparatively few studies of mammalian tooth root morphology. This thesis sets
out to investigate tooth root morphology in a range of catarrhine primates and carnivores …

Measurements of the skull and dentition were obtained for three groups of closely-related
Malagasy lemurs: Propithecus verreauxi and P. diadema, Hapalemur griseus and H. simus …

Abstract During the Mature period (2600–1900 BCE) of the Indus Civilization, Gujarat was
occupied by two types of settlements, the settlements with predominantly Classical …