African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
African Paleoecology and Human Evolution

Author: Sally C. Reynolds

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-06-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1009293397

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Humans evolved in the dynamic landscapes of Africa under conditions of pronounced climatic, geological and environmental change during the past 7 million years. This book brings together detailed records of the paleontological and archaeological sites in Africa that provide the basic evidence for understanding the environments in which we evolved. Chapters cover specific sites, with comprehensive accounts of their geology, paleontology, paleobotany, and their ecological significance for our evolution. Other chapters provide important regional syntheses of past ecological conditions. This book is unique in merging a broad geographic scope (all of Africa) and deep time framework (the past 7 million years) in discussing the geological context and paleontological records of our evolution and that of organisms that evolved alongside our ancestors. It will offer important insights to anyone interested in human evolution, including researchers and graduate students in paleontology, archaeology, anthropology and geology.

Bibliography of North American Geology
Bibliography of North American Geology

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 1160

ISBN-13:

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1919/28 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1919/20-1935/36 issues and also material not published separately for 1927/28. 1929/39 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1929/30-1935/36 issues and also material for 1937-39 not published separately.

Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain
Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain

Author: M.J. Benton

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 9401105197

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This volume details all British sites that have yielded fossil reptiles, describing in detail the fifty most important localities and providing an extensive bibliography of everything published on British Fossil reptiles since 1676.

Cenozoic Mammals of Africa
Cenozoic Mammals of Africa

Author: Lars Werdelin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-07-20

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 0520257219

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"This impressively comprehensive volume is a long-awaited and worthy successor to the now outdated 1978 classic, Evolution of African Mammals. A must-have reference work for everyone interested in mammalian evolution." David Pilbeam, Harvard University and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology --

Geology and Paleontology of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey
Geology and Paleontology of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey

Author: Mikael Fortelius

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780231113588

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The Sinap Formation in central Turkey near the city of Ankara preserves a rich record of mammalian evolution from about 15 to 5 million years ago and is one of the few sites in this region that also has fossil apes. It is unique among other fossil localities from Europe to Western Asia in that it has a thick stratigraphic section and preserves a long record of geological time. The authors have been able to piece together a detailed record of faunal change and, by adding paleomagnetic and radiometric dating techniques, have produced a chronostratigraphy for the Formation. Because of the dual importance of the rich record of the fossils, and the dating of the sediments, the editors have been able to attract some of the leading authorities on Eurasian Neogene paleontology and geology to contribute to this reference work. The results from the Sinap Formation will be the template against which other sites from Europe to Asia are compared.