Pawlik, Alfred F. Fuentes, Riczar B.
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Frontiers in Earth Science
Archaeological research in the Philippines has produced a timeline of currently over 700,000 years of human occupation. However, while an initial presence of early hominins has been securely established through several radiometric dates between 700 ka to 1 ma from Luzon Island, there is currently little evidence for the presence of hominins after t...
Linchamps, Pierre Stoetzel, Emmanuelle Cornette, Raphaël Denys, Christiane Hanon, Raphaël Maringa, Nompumelelo Matthews, Thalassa Steininger, Christine
The Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) provides an important fossil record of the evolutionary history of PlioPleistocene hominins. Cooper’s Cave deposits have yielded a rich fossil faunal assemblage, as well as six remains attributed to Paranthropus robustus. This study provides the first taxonomic, taphonomic and palaeoecological descrip...
Ye, Jun-Wei Tian, Bin Li, De-Zhu
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Introduction East Asia (EA), which falls within the region of the Asian monsoon that is composed of the East Asia monsoon (EAM) and the Indian monsoon (IM), is known for its high species diversity and endemism. This has been attributed to extreme physiographical heterogeneity in conjunction with climate and sea-level changes during the Pleistocene,...
Habinger, S. G. Chavasseau, O. Jaeger, J.-J. Chaimanee, Y. Soe, A. N. Sein, C. Bocherens, H.
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Scientific Reports
The evolutionary history and palaeoecology of orangutans remains poorly understood until today. The restricted geographic distribution of extant Pongo indicates specific ecological needs. However, it is not clear whether these needs were shared by the great diversity of fossil pongines known from the Miocene to the Pleistocene. Here we show how nic...
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The current distribution of populations in Europe is marked by the effects of glaciations that occurred during the Pleistocene. Temperate species were isolated in glacial refugia that were the sources of postglacial recolonization. The traditional glacial refuge areas were the Iberian, the Italian and the Balkan peninsulas. Here we revisit the evol...
Zhang, Xin Liu, Jian Wang, Yixuan Chen, Tianyuan Abbas, Mahmoud Qian, Shengling
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Frontiers in Earth Science
The southwestern coast of the Bohai Sea is a favorable area to study land-sea interactions and palaeoenvironmental changes. The Bohai Sea hosts vast volumes of sediment discharged from rivers of mainland China and has undergone large-scale sea-level fluctuations during the Quaternary. Three transgressions have been previously determined for the Boh...
Klementiev, Alexey M. Khatsenovich, Arina M. Tserendagva, Yadmaa Rybin, Evgeny P. Bazargur, Dashzeveg Marchenko, Daria V. Gunchinsuren, Byambaa Derevianko, Anatoly P. Olsen, John W.
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Frontiers in Earth Science
Throughout the arid lands of Africa and Eurasia, camelids facilitated the expansion of human populations into areas that would not likely have been habitable without the transportation abilities of this animal along with the organic resources it provides, including dung, meat, milk, leather, wool, and bones. The two-humped, Bactrian, species of Cam...
Lee, Changhoon Fong, Jonathan J. Jiang, Jian-Ping Li, Pi-Peng Waldman, Bruce Chong, Jong Ryol Lee, Hang Min, Mi-Sook
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Animal Cells and Systems
We conduct a phylogeographic and population genetic study of the Asiatic toad ( Bufo gargarizans ) to understand its evolutionary history, and the influence of geology and climate. A total of 292 individuals from 94 locations were genotyped for two mitochondrial loci ( cytb , ND2 ) and five nuclear introns ( Sox9-2 , Rho-3 , CCNB2-3 , UCH-2 , and D...
Janssens, Luc A A Boudadi-Maligne, Myriam Lawler, Dennis F O'Keefe, F Robin van Dongen, Stefan
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Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
In a recent article in this journal, Galeta et al., (2020) discussed eight Pleistocene "protodogs" and seven Pleistocene wolves. Those "protodogs" had been diagnosed in earlier publications, based on skull morphology. We re-examined the Galeta et al. paper to offer comments on their observed outcomes, and the conclusion of presumed domestication. O...
Merceron, Gildas Uno, Kevin Brown, Morgan Guy, F. Hlusko, Leslea Martin, Jérémy Balter, Vincent Souron, Antoine Boisserie, Jean-Renaud
The fossil record from the Shungura Formation in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, includes several species of primates. Diet is an important aspect to assess niche partitioning. Here, we combine stable isotope analysis and dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) of hominid and cercopithecid molars to study dietary partitioning. Wefocus on the perio...
