Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 475-497

  Bobe, René ^a   Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^a   Chapman, Ralph E ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental variability; Faunal change; Hominid evolution; Homo; Lower Omo valley; Pliocene mammals; Shungura formation

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; PLIOCENE; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; TURKANA BASIN;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; BOVIDAE; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036005696     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2001.0535     Document Type: Article

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