ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Aridity and hominin environments.
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- Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa.Ecology letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
Aridification is often considered a major driver of long-term ecological change and hominin evolution in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene; however, this hypothesis remains inadequately tested owing to difficulties in reconstructing terrestrial paleoclimate. We present a revised aridity index for quantifying water deficit (WD) in terrestrial environments using tooth enamel δ
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