Abstract The Afar Depression is a unique place on Earth where active rift processes can be
directly observed. It is believed to be close to continental breakup. The Afar hotspot has a …

Climate variability and hominin evolution are inextricably linked. Yet, hypotheses examining
the impact of large-scale climate shifts on hominin landscape ecology are often constrained …

Australopithecus anamensis is a pivotal species in human evolution. It is likely to be the
direct ancestor of Australopithecus afarensis and the species that may have given rise to the …

Plant wax biomarkers are an innovative proxy for reconstructing vegetation composition and
structure, rainfall intensity, temperature, and other climatic and environmental dynamics …

Many important Pliocene hominin specimens have been recovered from Woranso-Mille, a
paleontological research area in the Afar region of Ethiopia, including the complete cranium …

Environmental changes are often cited as the main driver of hominin evolutionary events,
including major adaptive events such as bipedalism. Thus, researchers are particularly …

Abstract Fossiliferous deposits at Woranso-Mille span the period when Australopithecus
anamensis gave rise to Australopithecus afarensis (3.8–3.6 Ma) and encompass the core of …

During the mid-to-late Pliocene (ca. 4–3 Ma), several hominin species were present in
central Sahel, eastern and southern Africa. The potential for the discovery of hominin …

Australopithecus anamensis, among the earliest fully bipedal hominin species, lived in
eastern Africa around 4 Ma. Much of what is currently known about the paleoecology of A …

The carbon isotopic composition of different carbon-bearing materials, organic and
inorganic, is commonly used to reconstruct distributions of tropical C 4 grasslands. However …