R Potts - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Investigations into how climate change shaped human evolution have begun to focus on environmental dynamics, ie, the nature and tempo of climate and landscape variability, an …
INTRODUCTION Drimolen is one of several ancient caves located in the Hominid Caves of South Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) …
Astronomically forced insolation changes have driven monsoon dynamics and recurrent humid episodes in North Africa, resulting in green Sahara Periods (GSPs) with savannah …
How do chimpanzees say,'I want to have sex with you?'By clipping a leaf or knocking on a tree trunk? How do they eat live aggressive ants? By using a short stick with one hand or …
R Potts, JT Faith - Journal of human evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
Interaction of orbital insolation cycles defines a predictive model of alternating phases of high-and low-climate variability for tropical East Africa over the past 5 million years. This …
The development of the Cenozoic East African Rift System (EARS) profoundly re-shaped the landscape and significantly increased the amplitude of short-term environmental response …
Current evidence suggests that many of the major events in hominin evolution occurred in East Africa. Hence, over the past two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …
RB Owen, VM Muiruri, TK Lowenstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Evidence for Quaternary climate change in East Africa has been derived from outcrops on land and lake cores and from marine dust, leaf wax, and pollen records. These data have …