Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 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.
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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 ...
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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]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Bibi F, Kiessling W.
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Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Cohen AS +16 more
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No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions. [PDF]
Nat CommunThe 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,
Sun J, de la Torre I, Bibi F.
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Evol AnthropolABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
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A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa. [PDF]
Sci RepWhile Crocodylus fossils are common in late Cenozoic deposits of Africa, there is a lack of knowledge about species diversity within the genus, especially after the Early Pleistocene. Here we report on a complete skull of a new fossil Crocodylus from the
Salih K, Müller J, Eisawi A, Bibi F.
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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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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 ...
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