High-resolution vegetation and climate change associated with Pliocene Australopithecus afarensis
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Plio-Pleistocene global climate change is believed to have had an important influence on local habitats and early human evolution in Africa. Responses of hominin lineages to climate change have been difficult to test, however, because this procedure requires well documented evidence for connections between global climate and hominin environment. Through high-resolution pollen data from Hadar, Ethiopia, we show that the hominin Australopithecus afarensis accommodated to substantial environmental variability between 3.4 and 2.9 million years ago. A large biome shift, up to 5°C cooling, and a 200- to 300-mm/yr rainfall increase occurred just before 3.3 million years ago, which is consistent with a global marine δ 18 O isotopic shift.
Archaeology · Biological evolution · Biology · Biome · Climate change · Early Pleistocene · Ecosystem · Geography · Hominidae · Human evolution · Paleoclimatology · Physical geography · Pleistocene · Plio-Pleistocene · Pollen · Vegetation (pathology) · Ecology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Paleosols
Hominid environments at Hadar from paleosol studies in a framework of Ethiopian climate change
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Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
The Metabolic Ghetto
The Nile Basin
General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology
Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins
Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Serengeti Micromammal Communities and the Paleoecology of Laetoli, Tanzania
Paleoecology
General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology
The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Large Mammal Evidence for the Paleoenvironment of the Upper Laetolil and Upper Ndolanya Beds of Laetoli, Tanzania
Proboscidea
Phytoliths and Pollen, the Microscopic Plant Remains in Pliocene Volcanic Sediments Around Laetoli, Tanzania
Sexual Size Dimorphism in Australopithecus
Paranthropus Paleoenvironments Based on Micromammal Assemblages
Hominin origins and evolution during the Neogene
Australopithecines
Orbital controls on seasonality
Climate Change and Human Evolution
Hominin evolution in settings of strong environmental variability
Reply to “Is the Pliocene Ethiopian Monsoon extinct? A comment on Aronson et al. (2008)”
Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins
Paleoenvironments and Hominin Evolution
Paleoecology
Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution
Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia
Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Paleoecology
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Some Ruminations on Australopith Diets
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Special Paper
Late Pliocene Faunal Turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia
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Temporal trends and metric variation in the mandibles and dentition of Australopithecus afarensis
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