African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene-Pleistocene

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 3-24

  deMenocal, Peter B ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Eolian dust; Human evolution; Monsoon; Orbital forcing; Paleoclimate; Savannah hypothesis; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AFRICA;

EID: 1842481416     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00003-2     Document Type: Article

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