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 …

A review of the Cenozoic vegetation history of Africa

BF Jacobs, AD Pan, CR Scotese… - … mammals of Africa, 2010 - books.google.com
The aim of this chapter is to review and interpret the Cenozoic paleobotanical record of
Africa. Ideally, we want to present a dynamic view of plant community and ecosystem …

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and melon (C. melo) have numerous wild relatives in Asia and Australia, and the sister species of melon is from Australia

P Sebastian, H Schaefer… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Among the fundamental questions regarding cultivated plants is their geographic origin and
region of domestication. The genus Cucumis, which includes cucumber (Cucumis sativus) …

[图书][B] Mammal teeth: origin, evolution, and diversity

PS Ungar - 2010 - books.google.com
Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

[图书][B] Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation

J Ghazoul, D Sheil - 2010 - books.google.com
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …

Tinamous and moa flock together: mitochondrial genome sequence analysis reveals independent losses of flight among ratites

MJ Phillips, GC Gibb, EA Crimp, D Penny - Systematic biology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Ratites are large, flightless birds and include the ostrich, rheas, kiwi, emu, and cassowaries,
along with extinct members, such as moa and elephant birds. Previous phylogenetic …

New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys

IS Zalmout, WJ Sanders, LM MacLatchy, GF Gunnell… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
It is widely understood that Hominoidea (apes and humans) and Cercopithecoidea (Old
World monkeys) have a common ancestry as Catarrhini deeply rooted in Afro-Arabia,,,. The …

Detarieae sensu lato (Fabaceae) from the Late Oligocene (27.23 Ma) Guang River flora of north-western Ethiopia

AD Pan, BF Jacobs… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
New species of caesalpinioid legumes, Cynometra sensu lato and Afzelia, are described
from the Late Oligocene (27.23 Ma) Guang River flora in north-western Ethiopia. Both taxa …

New Oligocene vertebrate localities from northern Kenya (Turkana basin)

S Ducrocq, JR Boisserie, JJ Tiercelin… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
ST EPHANE DUCROCQ,*, 1 JEAN-RENAUD BOISSERIE, 1 JEAN-JACQUES TIERCELIN, 2
CYRILLE DELMER, 3 GERALDINE GARCIA, 1 MANTHI FREDERICK KYALO, 4 MEAVE G …

A primitive hyracoid (Mammalia, Paenungulata) from the early Priabonian (late Eocene) of Egypt

E Barrow, ER Seiffert, EL Simons - Journal of Systematic …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
A new hyracoid genus and species, Dimaitherium patnaiki from the early Late Eocene (early
Priabonian) Birket Qarun Formation in the Fayum Depression, Egypt, is described. The …