High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 11245-11249

  Passey, Benjamin H ^a,c   Levin, Naomi E ^a,c   Cerling, Thure E ^b   Brown, Francis H ^b   Eiler, John M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipedal locomotion; Clumped isotopes; Continental paleoclimate; Hominid; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBON; OXYGEN;

AFRICA; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUNLIGHT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOMINID; HUMAN; KENYA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

HOMINIDAE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATES; CLIMATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEONTOLOGY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954937155     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001824107     Document Type: Article

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