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 …

A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

A Cooper, CSM Turney, J Palmer, A Hogg, M McGlone… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …

The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity

T Andermann, S Faurby, ST Turvey, A Antonelli… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have
affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species …

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 …

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 …

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution

J Dembitzer, R Barkai, M Ben-Dor, S Meiri - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiple large-bodied species went extinct during the Pleistocene. Changing climates and/or
human hunting are the main hypotheses used to explain these extinctions. We studied the …

[图书][B] The indigenous Paleolithic of the western Hemisphere

PFC Steeves - 2021 - books.google.com
2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western
Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South …