Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bobe, René (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Alemseged, Zeresenay (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Behrensmeyer, Anna K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
• Σειρά: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Vertebrates.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene
• Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution
• African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change
• Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa
• Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits
• Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia
• Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments
• The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery
• Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments
• Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania
• The paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli
• Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi
• Finale and future.