Monsoon intensification in East Asia triggered the evolution of its flora
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 IntroductionEast Asia (EA), which falls within the region of the Asian monsoon that is composed of the East Asia monsoon (EAM) and the Indian monsoon (IM), is known for its high species diversity and endemism.
Jun-Wei Ye +3 more
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Stages of river network formation of the Upper Kama River basin in the Pleistocene
Учёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки, 2020 River network formation in the northeast part of the East European Plain was discussed. The relevance of the study is due to a lack of knowledge about the functioning and development of the Upper Kama River basin in the Pleistocene. Most of the available
N.N. Nazarov, S.V. Kopytov
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Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans [PDF]
, 2014 Humans are unique, compared with our closest living relatives (chimpanzees) and early fossil hominins, in having an enlarged body size and lower limb joint surfaces in combination with a relatively gracile skeleton (i.e., lower bone mass for our body ...
Bernhard Zipfel +11 more
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Two Acheuleans, two humankinds. From 1.5 to 0.85 Ma at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopian highlands) [PDF]
, 2017 The Acheulean is the longest-lasting human cultural record, spanning approximately 1.5 Ma and three continents. The most comprehensive sequences are found in East Africa, where, in large-scale syntheses, the Lower Pleistocene Acheulean (LPA) has often ...
Gallotti, Rosalia, Mussi, Margherita
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Clay mineralogical evidence of Quaternary paleoclimate in Northern Morocco [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe paleoclimate during the Pleistocene period can be deduced from the study of the composition of clay minerals in the marine terraces of the Tangier region, Morocco.
Tichli Soufiane +2 more
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Pliocene-Pleistocene marine cyclothems, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: a lithostratigraphic framework [PDF]
, 1995 The Rangitikei River valley between Mangaweka and Vinegar Hill and the surrounding Ohingaiti region in eastern Wanganui Basin contains a late Pliocene to early Pleistocene (c. 2.6-1.7 Ma), c.
Abbott S. T. +13 more
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Sporormiella as a tool for detecting the presence of large herbivores in the Neotropics [PDF]
, 2016 The reliability of using the abundance of Sporormiella spores as a proxy for the presence and abundance of megaherbivores was tested in southern Brazil. Mud-water interface samples from nine lakes, in which cattle-use was categorized as high, medium, or ...
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Palaeobiology of Pliocene-Pleistocene shallow-water biocalcarenites (Northern Apennines, Italy) and their relationship with coeval sapropels [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Cau, S., Roveri, M., & Taviani, M.
Cau, Simone +2 more
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]
, 2018 Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
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The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
Nature, 2018 Northeastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the late Pleistocene population history of northeastern Siberia through analyses of 34 newly ...
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