Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence
Contributor(s): Bobe, Ren� [editor.1 ] | Alemseged, Zeresenay [editor.1 ] | Behrensmeyer, Anna K [editor.2 ] | SpringerLink (Online service)0.
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BookSeries: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series.Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007. Description: XX, 355 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781402030987.Subject(s): Earth sciences | Paleontology | Evolutionary biology | Vertebrates | Archaeology.1 | Earth Sciences.2 | Paleontology.2 | Vertebrates.2 | Evolutionary Biology.2 | Archaeology.1DDC classification: 560 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene -- Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution -- African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change -- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa -- Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits -- Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia -- Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments -- The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery -- Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments -- Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania -- The paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli -- Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi -- Finale and future.
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