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" Hominin environments in the East African Pliocene "
edited by René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer.
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663370
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Hominin environments in the East African Pliocene : an assessment of the faunal evidence /\ edited by René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer.
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Dordrecht, The Netherlands :: Springer,, c2007.
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Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series
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xx, 354 p. :: ill. ;; 29 cm.
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9781402030970 (HB : acid-free paper)
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: 1402030975 (HB : acid-free paper)
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9781402030987 (e-bk.)
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1402030983 (e-bk.)
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Proceedings of a symposium organized for the April 2003 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Tempe, Ariz. and a workshop at the Smithsonian Institution in May 2004.
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Errata (2 col. ill. on 1 leaf) inserted.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene / A.K. Behrensmeyer, R. Bobe, and Z. Alemseged -- Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution / R. Potts -- African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change / S.R. Frost -- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa : implications for hominin evolution / M.E. Lewis and L. Werdelin-- Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits / H.B.S. Cooke -- Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia / R. Bobe, A.K. Behrensmeyer, G.G. Eck, and J.M. Harris -- Comparability of fossil data and its signifi cance for the interpretation of hominin environments : a case study in the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia / Z. Alemseged, R. Bobe, and D. Geraads -- The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery : a case study of the American and French collections from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia / G.G. Eck -- Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments / D.N. Reed -- Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the upper Laetolil Beds (localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania / C. Musiba, C. Magori, M. Stoller, T. Stein, S. Branting, M. Vogt, R. Tuttle, B. Hallgrímsson, S. Killindo, F. Mizambwa, F. Ndunguru, and A. Mabulla -- The paleoecology of the upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli : a reconsideration of the large mammal evidence / D.F. Su and T. Harrison -- Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, northern Malawi / O. Sandrock, O. Kullmer, F. Schrenk, Y.M. Juwayeyi, and T.G. Bromage-- Investigating faunal evidence for hominin paleoecology in East Africa / A.K. Behrensmeyer, Z. Alemseged, and R. Bobe.
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Fossil hominids-- Africa, Eastern, Congresses.
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Fossil hominids-- Food-- Africa, Eastern, Congresses.
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Animals, Fossil-- Africa, Eastern-- Observations, Congresses.
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Zoological surveys-- Africa, Eastern, Congresses.
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Taphonomy-- Africa, Eastern, Congresses.
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Paleoanthropology, Congresses.
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Geology, Stratigraphic-- Pliocene, Congresses.
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Bobe, René,1960-
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Alemseged, Zeresenay.
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Behrensmeyer, Anna K.
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