The Asian monsoon is comprised of the Indian and East Asian subsystems. These two
components are linked to one another in varying degrees by regions of strong sensible …

The date for the initial colonization of Sahul is a key benchmark in human history and the
topic of a long-running debate. Most analysts favor either a 40,000 BP or 60,000 BP arrival …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

All Australian land mammals, reptiles, and birds weighing more than 100 kilograms, and six
of the seven genera with a body mass of 45 to 100 kilograms, perished in the late …

Most of Australia's largest mammals became extinct 50,000 to 45,000 years ago, shortly after
humans colonized the continent. Without exceptional climate change at that time, a human …

The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

" As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in
evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID …

Australia, the flattest, driest, and geologically oldest vegetated continent, has a uniquely high
proportion of nutrient‐poor soils. We develop a “Nutrient‐Poverty/Intense‐Fire Theory,” …

Mechanisms for concentrating carbon around the Rubisco enzyme, which drives the carbon-
reducing steps in photosynthesis, are widespread in plants; in vascular plants they are …