Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene : An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence - Bobe, René.; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene -- Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution -- African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change -- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa -- Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits -- Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia -- Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments -- The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery -- Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments -- Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania -- The paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli -- Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi -- Finale and future.
Keywords: Paleontology .; Vertebrates; Evolutionary biology; Archaeology; Paleontology; Vertebrates; Evolutionary Biology; Archaeology