The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research
activities have seen immense growth during the last decade. This review takes stock of the …

The relationship between climate and human evolution is complex, and the causal
mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we review and synthesize what is currently known …

It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

Fossil abundance data can reveal ecological dynamics underpinning taxonomic declines.
Using fossil dental metrics, we reconstructed body mass and mass–abundance distributions …

The scale-sensitive fractal analysis (SSFA) of dental microwear textures is traditionally
performed using the software Toothfrax. SSFA has been recently integrated to the software …

This study aims at improving dietary discrimination among primates through a new analytic
approach of dental microwear texture analysis integrating a surface sampling on facets of …

This study aims to explore the feeding ecology of two terrestrial papionins, Papio and
Theropithecus from the Shungura Formation in Ethiopia, the most complete stratigraphic and …

The dietary guild structure of ungulate communities is a useful paleoecological tool for
understanding the context of hominin paleobiology and evolution. Ungulates are well …

Abstract The Serra do Mar Atlantic forest (Brazil) shelters about 15 different species of
caviomorph rodents and thus represents a unique opportunity to explore resource …

Abstract The Awash Valley, Turkana Basin and lower Omo Valley of East Africa are three
regions that have been particularly important for documenting the environment from the late …