East african climate pulses and early human evolution

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-17

  Maslin, Mark A ^a   Brierley, Chris M ^a   Milner, Alice M ^a   Shultz, Susanne ^b   Trauth, Martin H ^c   Wilson, Katy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cenozoic climate transitions; East africa; Hominin; Human evolution; Orbital forcing; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoliminology; Pulsed climate variability hypothesis; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAKES;

CLIMATE TRANSITION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EAST AFRICA; HOMININ; HUMAN EVOLUTION; ORBITAL FORCING; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALAEOLIMINOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD FOREST; DISPERSAL; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORATION; HOLOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMATE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TECTONICS;

FORESTRY; LAKES; METEOROLOGY; EAST AFRICA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EAST AFRICA;

EID: 84904042309     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.012     Document Type: Review

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