Abstract Within the Balkan Peninsula, topographic and climatic agents have promoted
biodiversity and shaped the speciation history of many ectotherms. Here, we targeted an …

On subsiding continental shelves, the style of stacked coastal and deltaic progradational
packages is directly dependent on relative sea-level changes. In the past∼ 0.6 Ma, sea …

Our study focuses on the origin, dispersal patterns, evolutionary strategies and systematics
of Poecilimon, the largest bush‐cricket genus in the Palaearctic with over 150 taxa …

Aiello, LC and Dunbar, RIM 1993. Neocortex size, group size, and the evolution of
language. Current Anthropology 34 (2), 184-93 Aiello, LC and Wheeler, P. 1995. The …

Abstract Aim The Aegean Sea constitutes a major biogeographic barrier between the
European and Asian continents and several models of diversification in the Aegean have …

Several Aegean islands are known for their Pleistocene endemic mammal species. In
isolation from the mainland, these mammals adapted to insular environments evolving …

A high-resolution palaeoenvironmental investigation was conducted on the benthic
foraminiferal record of two continuous sediment cores (DEH 5, DEH 1) in order to reconstruct …

Since the discovery of calcareous nannofossils, dinoflagellate cysts and planktonic
foraminifers in deposits from the Dacic Basin, intensive research has been performed in …

The Aegean Sea covers an area of some 160× 103km2 and receives the water/sediment
fluxes from a mountainous drainage basin of> 200× 103km2. On the basis of its …

This paper provides a synthesis of the present knowledge on dwarfed endemic elephants
from the Pleistocene of the south Aegean islands. Pleistocene elephants are quite well …