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Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins
Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins, This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years - especially the last three million - has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from all over the worldauthoriti, Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins
  • Written by author Elisabeth S Vrba
  • Published by New Haven ; Yale University Press, c1995., 1996/05/01
  • This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years - especially the last three million - has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from all over the worldauthoriti
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Preface
1 Current Issues in Pliocene Paleoclimatology 3
2 Climatic Effects of Late Neogene Tectonism and Volcanism 8
3 On the Connections between Paleoclimate and Evolution 24
4 A Review of Polar Climatic Evolution during the Neogene, Based on the Marine Sediment Record 49
5 Pollen Evidence for Vegetational and Climatic in Southern Africa during the Neogene and Quaternary 65
6 Tertiary Environmental and Biotic Change in Australia 77
7 Climatic Implications of Large-Herbivore Distributions in the Miocene of North America 91
8 Mammalian Migration and Climate over the Last Seven Million Years 109
9 Faunal Turnover and Diversity in the Terrestrial Neogene of Pakistan 116
10 The Effects of Paleoclimate on the Evolution of the Soricidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) 135
11 What Metapodial Morphometry Has to Say about Some Miocene Hipparions 148
12 A Consideration of Old World Hipparionine Horse Phylogeny and Global Abiotic Processes 164
13 Faunal and Environmental Change in the Neogene of East Africa: Evidence from the Tugen Hills Sequence, Baringo District, Kenya 178
14 Middle Pliocene Paleoenvironments of the Northern Hemisphere
15 The Problem of Pliocene Paleoclimate and Ice-Sheet Evolution in Antarctica 213
16 A Critical Review of the Micropaleontological Evidence Used to Infer a Major Drawdown of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Early Pliocene 230
17 New Data on the Evolution of Pliocene Climatic Variability 242
18 Environmental and Paleoclimatic Evolution in Late Pliocene-Quaternary Colombia 249
19 Plio-Pleistocene Climatic Variability in Subtropical Africa and the Paleoenvironment of Hominid Evolution: A Combined Data-Model Approach 262
20 Steps toward Drier Climatic Conditions in Northwestern Africa during the Upper Pliocene 289
21 A Reassessment of the Plio-Pleistocene Pollen Record of East Africa 299
22 The "Elephant Equus" and the "End-Villafranchian" Events in Eurasia 311
23 The Potential of the Turkana Basin for Paleoclimatic Reconstruction in East Africa 319
24 The Influence of Global Climatic Change and Regional Uplift on Large-Mammalian Evolution in East and Southern Africa 331
25 Of Mice and Almost-Men: Regional Paleoecology and Human Evolution in the Turkana Basin 356
26 African Omnivores: Global Climatic Change and Plio-Pleistocene Hominids and Suids 369
27 The Fossil Record of African Antelopes (Mammalia, Bovidae) in Relation to Human Evolution and Paleoclimate 385
28 Hominid Speciation and Pliocene Climatic Change 425
29 Evolution of the Early Hominin Masticatory System: Mechanisms, Events, and Triggers 438
30 The Influence of Climatic Changes on the Completeness of the Early Hominid Record in Southern African Caves, with Particular Reference to Swartkrans 451
31 Southern Savannas and Pleistocene Hominid Adaptations: The Micromammalian Perspective 459
32 Exploring Ungulate Diversity, Biomass, and Climate in Modern and Past Environments 479
33 Diversity within the Genus Homo 483
34 The Influence of Climate and Geography on the Biocultural Evolution of the Far Eastern Hominids 493
35 The Role of Climate in the Interpretation of Human Movements and Cultural Transformations in Western Asia 507
36 The Evolution and Distribution of Later Pleistocene Human Populations 524
List of Contributors 533
Index 537


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