Continuous evolutionary change in Plio-Pleistocene mammals of eastern Africa

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

Volumn 112, Issue 34, 2015, Pages 10623-10628

  Bibi, Faysal ^a   Kiessling, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Bovidae; Mammals; Plio Pleistocene; Turnover

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOVID; EAST AFRICAN; EVOLUTION; GIRAFFIDAE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; HOMINID; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOSSIL; HISTORY; HUMIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMIDITY; MAMMALS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84940538526     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504538112     Document Type: Article

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