Hominin evolution in settings of strong environmental variability

R Potts - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Investigations into how climate change shaped human evolution have begun to focus on
environmental dynamics, ie, the nature and tempo of climate and landscape variability, an …

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 …

Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids

TD White, B Asfaw, Y Beyene, Y Haile-Selassie… - science, 2009 - science.org
Hominid fossils predating the emergence of Australopithecus have been sparse and
fragmentary. The evolution of our lineage after the last common ancestor we shared with …

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

TE Cerling, JG Wynn, SA Andanje, MI Bird, DK Korir… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The role of African savannahs in the evolution of early hominins has been debated for nearly
a century. Resolution of this issue has been hindered by difficulty in quantifying the fraction …

[图书][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

[图书][B] Humanity: An introduction to cultural anthropology

JG Peoples, GA Bailey - 2000 - editaisdesenv.prppg.ufrpe.br
That is really like the first hours that you have in your life and sadness. I do n't think i would
like every girl to be more rest of such a manner. To help tackle his dynasty memory once it …

Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets

M Sponheimer, Z Alemseged… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets
differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of …

Neither chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both

TD White, CO Lovejoy, B Asfaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Australopithecus fossils were regularly interpreted during the late 20th century in a
framework that used living African apes, especially chimpanzees, as proxies for the …

The Pelvis and Femur of Ardipithecus ramidus: The Emergence of Upright Walking

CO Lovejoy, G Suwa, L Spurlock, B Asfaw, TD White - science, 2009 - science.org
The femur and pelvis of Ardipithecus ramidus have characters indicative of both upright
bipedal walking and movement in trees. Consequently, bipedality in Ar. ramidus was more …

Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution

R Potts, JT Faith - Journal of human evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
Interaction of orbital insolation cycles defines a predictive model of alternating phases of
high-and low-climate variability for tropical East Africa over the past 5 million years. This …