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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Did human activity really trigger the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Central Africa?

Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Pierre de Maret, Manfred K H Eggert, Alexa Höhn, Christophe Mbida Mindzié, Katharina Neumann, Dirk Seidensticker

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  3. Paleoclimatic changes are the most probable causes of the rainforest crises 2,600 y ago in Central Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Bernard ClistUniversity of Ghent Centre for Bantu Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; bernardolivier.clist@ugent.be.ORCID 0000-0001-8521-6588
Koen BostoenUniversity of Ghent Centre for Bantu Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Pierre de MaretCentre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine, Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Manfred K H EggertInstitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
Alexa HöhnInstitute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany.
Christophe Mbida MindziéFaculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Yaoundé University I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Katharina NeumannInstitute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany.
Dirk SeidenstickerUniversity of Ghent Centre for Bantu Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Human ActivitiesRainforestAfrica, CentralFossilsHumans

Identifiers

PMID29739887
PMCPMC6003455

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