The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 207, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 399-420

  Bobe, René ^a   Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Faunal change; Grasslands; Homo; Lower Omo valley; Paranthropus; Plio Pleistocene hominins; Turkana basin

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GRASSLAND; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SAVANNA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TURKANA BASIN;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; BOVIDAE; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO ERECTUS; MAMMALIA; PARANTHROPUS;

EID: 2642542713     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.09.033     Document Type: Article

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