Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

A Antonelli, RJ Smith, AL Perrigo, A Crottini, J Hackel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We
review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and …

African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda

L Pereira, L Mutesa, P Tindana, M Ramsay - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The deep evolutionary history of African populations, since the emergence of modern
humans more than 300,000 years ago, has resulted in high genetic diversity and …

Island biodiversity in the Anthropocene

JC Russell, C Kueffer - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Biodiversity on marine islands is characterized by unique biogeographic, phylogenetic and
functional characteristics. Islands hold a disproportionate amount of the world's biodiversity …

Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna

J Hansford, PC Wright, A Rasoamiaramanana… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Previous research suggests that people first arrived on Madagascar by~ 2500 years before
present (years BP). This hypothesis is consistent with butchery marks on extinct lemur bones …

A critical review of radiocarbon dates clarifies the human settlement of Madagascar

K Douglass, S Hixon, HT Wright, LR Godfrey… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The timing of the human settlement of Madagascar, one of the last large landmasses to be
settled by people, remains a key topic of debate in archaeology. Despite decades of …

Late Holocene spread of pastoralism coincides with endemic megafaunal extinction on Madagascar

SW Hixon, KG Douglass… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recently expanded estimates for when humans arrived on Madagascar (up to
approximately 10 000 years ago) highlight questions about the causes of the island's …

Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene

M Stoneking, L Arias, D Liu, S Oliveira… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

[HTML][HTML] African bushpigs exhibit porous species boundaries and appeared in Madagascar concurrently with human arrival

RF Balboa, LD Bertola, A Brüniche-Olsen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Several African mammals exhibit a phylogeographic pattern where closely related taxa are
split between West/Central and East/Southern Africa, but their evolutionary relationships and …

A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis”

LR Godfrey, N Scroxton, BE Crowley, SJ Burns… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fundamental disagreements remain regarding the relative importance of climate change
and human activities as triggers for Madagascar's Holocene megafaunal extinction. We use …