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Evolution and Climate Variability

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Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa

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Single‐crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Olorgesailie Formation, Southern Kenya Rift

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Late Pliocene Faunal Turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia

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New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis

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High-resolution vegetation and climate change associated with Pliocene Australopithecus afarensis

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The sapropel record of the eastern Mediterranean Sea — results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160

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Paleolandscape variation and Early Pleistocene hominid activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya

Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A. K., & Ditchfield, P. W. (1999) · Journal of Human Evolution · doi:10.1006/jhev.1999.0344 · Cited by 225 · see citing works

Humanity's descent: the consequences of ecological instability

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The human career: Human biological and cultural origins

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New data on the evolution of Pliocene climatic cariabillity.

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Ecology and the Protohominids*

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Olorgesailie: Archaeological Studies of a Middle Pleistocene Lake Basin in Kenya

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Northeast African vegetation change over 12 m.y.

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Tectonics, orbital forcing, global climate change, and human evolution in Africa: introduction to the African paleoclimate special volume

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Genetic Variation at the MC1R Locus and the Time since Loss of Human Body Hair

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Sedimentation in Continental Rifts

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Small Mid-Pleistocene Hominin Associated with East African Acheulean Technology

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Astronomically forced climate change in the Kenyan Rift Valley 2.7–2.55 Ma: implications for the evolution of early hominin ecosystems

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Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene climate noise

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Precessional forcing of lacustrine sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Chemeron Basin, Central Kenya Rift, and calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary

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Hominin environments in the East African Pliocene: an assessment of the faunal evidence

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Evolution and Environmental Change in Early Human Prehistory

Potts, R. (2012) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145754 · Cited by 122 · see citing works

Landscapes of human evolution: models and methods of tectonic geomorphology and the reconstruction of hominin landscapes

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Variables versus models of early Pleistocene hominid land use

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An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin

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Environmental and Behavioral Evidence Pertaining to the Evolution of Early Homo

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New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya

Faith, J. T., Potts, R., Plummer, T. W., Bishop, L. C., Marean, C. W., & Tryon, C. A. (2012) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.005 · Cited by 95 · see citing works

Plio-Pleistocene East African Pulsed Climate Variability and Its Influence on Early Human Evolution

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Pinning down the Brunhes/Matuyama and upper Jaramillo boundaries: a reconciliation of orbital and isotopic time scales

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Diatomaceous sediments and environmental change in the Pleistocene Olorgesailie Formation, southern Kenya Rift Valley

Owen, R. B., Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A. K., & Ditchfield, P. W. (2008) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.06.021 · Cited by 91 · see citing works

Olorgesailie: new excavations and findings in Early and Middle Pleistocene contexts, southern Kenya rift valley

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Orbital rhythms, monsoons, and playa lake response, Olduvai Basin, equatorial East Africa (ca. 1.85–1.74 Ma)

Ashley, G. M. (2007) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g24163a.1 · Cited by 88 · see citing works

Mid-Pleistocene Change in Large Mammal Faunas of East Africa

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Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence

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Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene Mammals in the Omo—Turkana Basin and the Emergence of Homo

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Connecting local environmental sequences to global climate patterns: evidence from the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation, Ethiopia

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Paleogeographic variations of pedogenic carbonate δ13C values from Koobi Fora, Kenya: implications for floral compositions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin environments

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Plio-Pleistocene facies environments from the KBS Member, Koobi Fora Formation: implications for climate controls on the development of lake-margin hominin habitats in the northeast Turkana Basin (northwest Kenya)

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Present status of the astronomical (polarity) time-scale for the Mediterranean Late Neogene

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Climate-averaging of terrestrial faunas: an example from the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa

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Speciation, diversity, and Mode 1 technologies: The impact of variability selection

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Grove, M. L. (2011) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.07.002 · Cited by 57 · see citing works

Olorgesailie, Kenya

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Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution

Potts, R. (2007) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-3098-7_2 · Cited by 44 · see citing works

The Deep-Sea Oxygen Isotope Record, The Global Ice Sheet System and Hominid Evolution

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4 Tectonics, Orbital Forcing, Global Climate Change, and Human Evolution in Africa

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Geochemical trends through time and lateral variability of diatom floras in the Pleistocene Olorgesailie Formation, southern Kenya Rift Valley

Owen, R. B., Renaut, R. W., Potts, R., & Behrensmeyer, A. K. (2011) · Quaternary Research · doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.05.002 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

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How were vendobiont bodies patterned?

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Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

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Evolution of early Homo : An integrated biological perspective

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A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia)

Mussi, M., Méndez‐Quintas, E., Barboni, D., Bocherens, H., Bonnefille, R., Briatico, G., Geraads, D., Melis, R. T., Panera, J., Pioli, L., et al. (2023) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01970-1 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Diets of mammalian fossil fauna from Kanapoi, northwestern Kenya

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Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration

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Intrataxonomic trends in herbivore enamel δ13C are decoupled from ecosystem woody cover

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Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution

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Starch granules identification and automatic classification based on an extended set of morphometric and optical measurements

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The Oltulelei Formation of the southern Kenyan Rift Valley: A chronicle of rapid landscape transformation over the last 500 k.y.

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Hominin site distributions and behaviours across the Mid-Pleistocene climate transition in China

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Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies

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Humans preserve non-human primate pattern of climatic adaptation

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Lithological and Topographic Impact on Soil Nutrient Distributions in Tectonic Landscapes: Implications for Pleistocene Human-Landscape Interactions in the Southern Kenya Rift

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Recurring types of variability and transitions in the ∼620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia

Trauth, M. H., Asrat, A., Cohen, A. S., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kaboth‐Bahr, S., Kraemer, K. H., Lamb, H. F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M. A., et al. (2021) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106777 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

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Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste

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Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals

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Pleistocene environments in the southern Kalahari of South Africa

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Palaeoenvironments of the Olorgesailie Basin during Middle to Late Pleistocene inferred from Phytolith analyses

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Environmental and Behavioral Evidence Pertaining to the Evolution of Early Homo

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Quaternary landscape and environmental change in the Levant as a context for early human expansion from Africa

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Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution

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Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years

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