Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 The stability of permafrost carbon is poorly understood. Here the authors use Plio-Pleistocene clumped isotope reconstructions from the Tibetan Plateau and climate simulation to determine that ~85 petagrams of alpine carbon is vulnerable to thawing.
Feng Cheng +15 more
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Papio Cranium from the Hominin-Bearing Site of Malapa: Implications for the Evolution of Modern Baboon Cranial Morphology and South African Plio-Pleistocene Biochronology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 A new partial cranium (UW 88-886) of the Plio-Pleistocene baboon Papio angusticeps from Malapa is identified, described and discussed. UW 88-886 represents the only non-hominin primate yet recovered from Malapa and is important both in the context of ...
Christopher C Gilbert +4 more
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No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe drivers and consequences of hominin dispersals out of Africa remain debated. The spatial and temporal distribution of large mammal faunas contemporaneous with early Homo provides direct evidence for their ecological context and impact. In this study,
Jijia Sun +2 more
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Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Richard Alastair Owen +2 more
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Through Time and Across Traits: Evaluating Explanations of Human Evolution. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT We argue that current explanatory practice misses two situations that can arise in any lineage, not only ours. The first is dynamic: traits continue changing in one direction when a lineage's own niche construction keeps enlarging the problem it faces.
Ben-Dor M, Barkai R.
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Materials Proceedings, 2021 It is evident that the increased focus on energy transition, will increase the demand for gas as it is the transitional fuel to the net zero CO2 emission era. The West Katakolo field is the only oil and gas discovery in Western Greece, and it is operated
Vagia Ioanna Makri +4 more
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Plio-Pleistocene aardvarks (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2008 The Tubulidentata are unique among mammals for being the only order represented nowadays by a single living species, Orycteropus afer: the aardvark. Nevertheless, it is one of the least studied mammalian orders.
T. Lehmann
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Continuous evolutionary change in Plio-Pleistocene mammals of eastern Africa [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Wolfgang Kiessling, Faysal Bibi
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The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Haasgat is a primate-rich fossil locality in the northeastern part of the Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here we report the first hominin identified from Haasgat, a partial maxillary molar (HGT 500), that was recovered ...
AB Leece +7 more
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Estudios Geologicos, 2020 Las recientes excavaciones en Aves Cave I (AC), Brad Pit 'A' (BPA), Milo 'A' (MA), Bridge Cave (BC) y Alcelaphine Cave (AL), en la Cuna de la Humanidad, Gauteng (Sudáfrica), han proporcionado restos fósiles de suidos que aportan información ...
M. Pickford, D. Gommery
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