Early human evolution in the western palaearctic: Ecological scenarios

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1281-1295

  Carrión, José S ^a   Rose, James ^b   Stringer, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biodiversity hotspots; Human evolution; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoecology; Pleistocene; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; AVIFAUNA; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOMINID; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEARCTIC REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAPHONOMY;

AFRICA; ASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; HOMO ANTECESSOR; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO GEORGICUS; HOMO HABILIS; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79957639519     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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