Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa

Trauth, Martin H.; Bergner, Andreas G.N.; Foerster, Verena; Junginger, Annett; Maslin, Mark; Schaebitz, Frank

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.03.011

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“…Like other savanna-living mammals (Lorenzen et al, 2012), baboons were impacted by multiple cycles of expansion and retreat of savanna biomes during Pleistocene glacial and inter-glacial periods, and other climatic changes Trauth et al, 2015). Recurrent fragmentation and reconnection of populations, extinctions, and distribution shifts of demes likely led to multiple phases of isolation, hybridization, and introgression among populations (Zinner et al, 2009a(Zinner et al, , 2011.…”

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Distribution of Mitochondrial Clades and Morphotypes of BaboonsPapiospp. (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Eastern Africa

Zinner

Keller

Nyahongo

et al. 2015

Journal of East African Natural History

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confidence: 99%

Distribution of Mitochondrial Clades and Morphotypes of BaboonsPapiospp. (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Eastern Africa

Zinner

Keller

Nyahongo

et al. 2015

Journal of East African Natural History

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“…deMenocal, 1995, and overall climatic variability (e.g. Potts, 1996Potts, , 1998Potts, , 2012, and to correlate these trends with notable instances of evolutionary change (Potts, 2013;Shultz and Maslin, 2013;Grove, 2014;Maslin et al, 2014Maslin et al, , 2015Levin, 2015;Trauth et al, 2015;Carotenuto et al, 2016;Burke et al, 2017;Owen et al, 2018;Buck et al, 2018).…”

Section: Climatic Contextmentioning

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Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

Galway‐Witham

Cole

Stringer

2019

J Quaternary Science

106

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This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by interdisciplinary approaches to studying the origins of our species. We begin by briefly summarizing the climatic context across the Old World for the last 1 million years before directly addressing the fossil and archaeological records. The main themes in this work explore (i) recent discoveries in the fossil record over the last 15 years, such as Homo naledi and Homo floresiensis; (ii) the implications of palaeogenetics for understanding the evolutionary history of, and relationships between, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens; (iii) the interplay between physiology and metabolic demand, landscape use, and behavioural adaptations in the evolution of morphological and behavioural innovation; and (iv) recent advances in archaeological understanding for the behavioural record, in particular that of the Neanderthals. This paper seeks to provide a broad‐scale, holistic perspective of our current understanding of human evolution for the last 1 Ma, providing a reference point for researchers that can be built upon as new discoveries continue to develop the landscapes of human evolution. © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Quaternary Science Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…Drilling at both locations was terminated when the boreholes reached the trachytic basement rocks (at depths of ∼ 136 and 197 m for Sites 1 and 2, respectively). An exploratory shallow coring campaign was conducted at the Chew Bahir area in 2009 and 2010 along a NW-SE transect from the basin margin to the center, which recovered six short sediment cores of 9-18.8 m length (Foerster et al, 2012Trauth et al, 2015). Subsequently, a pilot drilling operation was conducted in the center of the Chew Bahir basin in March 2014 (∼ 41 m vertical borehole).…”

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The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits

Cohen¹,

Campisano²,

Arrowsmith³

et al. 2016

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Abstract. The role that climate and environmental history may have played in influencing human evolution has been the focus of considerable interest and controversy among paleoanthropologists for decades. Prior attempts to understand the environmental history side of this equation have centered around the study of outcrop sediments and fossils adjacent to where fossil hominins (ancestors or close relatives of modern humans) are found, or from the study of deep sea drill cores. However, outcrop sediments are often highly weathered and thus are unsuitable for some types of paleoclimatic records, and deep sea core records come from long distances away from the actual fossil and stone tool remains. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) was developed to address these issues. The project has focused its efforts on the eastern African Rift Valley, where much of the evidence for early hominins has been recovered. We have collected about 2 km of sediment drill core from six basins in Kenya and Ethiopia, in lake deposits immediately adjacent to important fossil hominin and archaeological sites. Collectively these cores cover in time many of the key transitions and critical intervals in human evolutionary history over the last 4 Ma, such as the earliest stone tools, the origin of our own genus Homo, and the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Here we document the initial field, physical property, and core description results of the 2012-2014 HSPDP coring campaign.

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Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa

Cited by 34 publications

References 72 publications

Distribution of Mitochondrial Clades and Morphotypes of BaboonsPapiospp. (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Eastern Africa

Distribution of Mitochondrial Clades and Morphotypes of BaboonsPapiospp. (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Eastern Africa

Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits

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