Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence /

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Other Authors: Bobe, René. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Alemseged, Zeresenay. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Behrensmeyer, Anna K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3098-7
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.