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    Aridity and hominin environments
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2017
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 114, No. 28 ( 2017-07-11), p. 7331-7336
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 28 ( 2017-07-11), p. 7331-7336
    Abstract: Aridification is often considered a major driver of long-term ecological change and hominin evolution in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene; however, this hypothesis remains inadequately tested owing to difficulties in reconstructing terrestrial paleoclimate. We present a revised aridity index for quantifying water deficit (WD) in terrestrial environments using tooth enamel δ 18 O values, and use this approach to address paleoaridity over the past 4.4 million years in eastern Africa. We find no long-term trend in WD, consistent with other terrestrial climate indicators in the Omo-Turkana Basin, and no relationship between paleoaridity and herbivore paleodiet structure among fossil collections meeting the criteria for WD estimation. Thus, we suggest that changes in the abundance of C 4 grass and grazing herbivores in eastern Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene may have been decoupled from aridity. As in modern African ecosystems, other factors, such as rainfall seasonality or ecological interactions among plants and mammals, may be important for understanding the evolution of C 4 grass- and grazer-dominated biomes.
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    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
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    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700597114
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    A stable isotope aridity index for terrestrial environments
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2006
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 103, No. 30 ( 2006-07-25), p. 11201-11205
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 103, No. 30 ( 2006-07-25), p. 11201-11205
    Abstract: We use the oxygen isotopic composition of tooth enamel from multiple mammalian taxa across eastern Africa to present a proxy for aridity. Here we report tooth enamel δ 18 O values of 14 species from 18 locations and classify them according to their isotopic sensitivity to environmental aridity. The species are placed into two groups, evaporation sensitive (ES) and evaporation insensitive (EI). Tooth enamel δ 18 O values of ES animals increase with aridity, whereas the tooth enamel δ 18 O values of EI animals track local meteoric water δ 18 O values, demonstrating that bioapatite δ 18 O values of animals with different behaviors and physiologies record different aspects of the same environment. The enrichment between tooth enamel δ 18 O values of ES and EI animals records the degree of 18 O enrichment between evaporated water (ingested water or body water) and source water, which increases with environmental aridity. Recognition of the ES–EI distinction creates the opportunity to use the 18 O composition of bioapatite as an index of terrestrial aridity.
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    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604719103
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    Publication Date: 2006
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    Comment on the Paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ; 2010
    In:  Science Vol. 328, No. 5982 ( 2010-05-28), p. 1105-1105
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    In: Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 328, No. 5982 ( 2010-05-28), p. 1105-1105
    Abstract: White and colleagues (Research Articles, 2 October 2009, pp. 65–67 and www.sciencemag.org/ardipithecus ) characterized the paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus at Aramis, Ethiopia, which they described as containing habitats ranging from woodland to forest patches. In contrast, we find the environmental context of Ar. ramidus at Aramis to be represented by what is commonly referred to as tree- or bush-savanna, with 25% or less woody canopy cover.
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    ISSN: 0036-8075 , 1095-9203
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1126/science.1185274
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    Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2010
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    Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ; 2018
    In:  Science Vol. 360, No. 6384 ( 2018-04-06), p. 86-90
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    In: Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 360, No. 6384 ( 2018-04-06), p. 86-90
    Abstract: Development of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) before 300,000 years ago raises the question of how environmental change influenced the evolution of behaviors characteristic of early Homo sapiens . We used temporally well-constrained sedimentological and paleoenvironmental data to investigate environmental dynamics before and after the appearance of the early MSA in the Olorgesailie basin, Kenya. In contrast to the Acheulean archeological record in the same basin, MSA sites are associated with a markedly different faunal community, more pronounced erosion-deposition cycles, tectonic activity, and enhanced wet-dry variability. Aspects of Acheulean technology in this region imply that, as early as 615,000 years ago, greater stone material selectivity and wider resource procurement coincided with an increased pace of land-lake fluctuation, potentially anticipating the adaptability of MSA hominins.
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    ISSN: 0036-8075 , 1095-9203
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2200
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    Publication Date: 2018
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    High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2010
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 107, No. 25 ( 2010-06-22), p. 11245-11249
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, No. 25 ( 2010-06-22), p. 11245-11249
    Abstract: Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage of human evolution. Here we show that the Turkana Basin, Kenya—today one of the hottest places on Earth—has been continually hot during the past 4 million years. The distribution of 13 C- 18 O bonds in paleosol carbonates indicates that soil temperatures during periods of carbonate formation were typically above 30 °C and often in excess of 35 °C. Similar soil temperatures are observed today in the Turkana Basin and reflect high air temperatures combined with solar heating of the soil surface. These results are specific to periods of soil carbonate formation, and we suggest that such periods composed a large fraction of integrated time in the Turkana Basin. If correct, this interpretation has implications for human thermophysiology and implies a long-standing human association with marginal environments.
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    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001824107
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    Publication Date: 2010
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    Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2015
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 112, No. 37 ( 2015-09-15), p. 11467-11472
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, No. 37 ( 2015-09-15), p. 11467-11472
    Abstract: A large stable isotope dataset from East and Central Africa from ca . 30 regional collection sites that range from forest to grassland shows that most extant East and Central African large herbivore taxa have diets dominated by C 4 grazing or C 3 browsing. Comparison with the fossil record shows that faunal assemblages from ca . 4.1–2.35 Ma in the Turkana Basin had a greater diversity of C 3 –C 4 mixed feeding taxa than is presently found in modern East and Central African environments. In contrast, the period from 2.35 to 1.0 Ma had more C 4 -grazing taxa, especially nonruminant C 4 -grazing taxa, than are found in modern environments in East and Central Africa. Many nonbovid C 4 grazers became extinct in Africa, notably the suid Notochoerus , the hipparion equid Eurygnathohippus , the giraffid Sivatherium , and the elephantid Elephas . Other important nonruminant C 4 -grazing taxa switched to browsing, including suids in the lineage Kolpochoerus - Hylochoerus and the elephant Loxodonta . Many modern herbivore taxa in Africa have diets that differ significantly from their fossil relatives. Elephants and tragelaphin bovids are two groups often used for paleoecological insight, yet their fossil diets were very different from their modern closest relatives; therefore, their taxonomic presence in a fossil assemblage does not indicate they had a similar ecological function in the past as they do at present. Overall, we find ecological assemblages of C 3 -browsing, C 3 –C 4 -mixed feeding, and C 4 -grazing taxa in the Turkana Basin fossil record that are different from any modern ecosystem in East or Central Africa.
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    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513075112
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    Publication Date: 2015
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    Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ; 2011
    In:  Science Vol. 334, No. 6062 ( 2011-12-16), p. 1578-1580
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    In: Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 334, No. 6062 ( 2011-12-16), p. 1578-1580
    Abstract: Conflicting interests among group members are common when making collective decisions, yet failure to achieve consensus can be costly. Under these circumstances individuals may be susceptible to manipulation by a strongly opinionated, or extremist, minority. It has previously been argued, for humans and animals, that social groups containing individuals who are uninformed, or exhibit weak preferences, are particularly vulnerable to such manipulative agents. Here, we use theory and experiment to demonstrate that, for a wide range of conditions, a strongly opinionated minority can dictate group choice, but the presence of uninformed individuals spontaneously inhibits this process, returning control to the numerical majority. Our results emphasize the role of uninformed individuals in achieving democratic consensus amid internal group conflict and informational constraints.
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    ISSN: 0036-8075 , 1095-9203
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1126/science.1210280
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    Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2011
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    A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ; 2008
    In:  Science Vol. 322, No. 5904 ( 2008-11-14), p. 1089-1092
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    In: Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 322, No. 5904 ( 2008-11-14), p. 1089-1092
    Abstract: Analyses of the KNM-WT 15000 Homo erectus juvenile male partial skeleton from Kenya concluded that this species had a tall thin body shape due to specialized locomotor and climatic adaptations. Moreover, it was concluded that H. erectus pelves were obstetrically restricted to birthing a small-brained altricial neonate. Here we describe a nearly complete early Pleistocene adult female H. erectus pelvis from the Busidima Formation of Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. This obstetrically capacious pelvis demonstrates that pelvic shape in H. erectus was evolving in response to increasing fetal brain size. This pelvis indicates that neither adaptations to tropical environments nor endurance running were primary selective factors in determining pelvis morphology in H. erectus during the early Pleistocene.
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    ISSN: 0036-8075 , 1095-9203
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1126/science.1163592
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    Publication Date: 2008
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    Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2010
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 107, No. 22 ( 2010-06), p. 10002-10007
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, No. 22 ( 2010-06), p. 10002-10007
    Abstract: The manufacture of stone tools and their use to access animal tissues by Pliocene hominins marks the origin of a key adaptation in human evolutionary history. Here we report an in situ archaeological assemblage from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya that provides a unique combination of faunal remains, some with direct evidence of butchery, and Oldowan artifacts, which are well dated to 1.95 Ma. This site provides the oldest in situ evidence that hominins, predating Homo erectus , enjoyed access to carcasses of terrestrial and aquatic animals that they butchered in a well-watered habitat. It also provides the earliest definitive evidence of the incorporation into the hominin diet of various aquatic animals including turtles, crocodiles, and fish, which are rich sources of specific nutrients needed in human brain growth. The evidence here shows that these critical brain-growth compounds were part of the diets of hominins before the appearance of Homo ergaster/erectus and could have played an important role in the evolution of larger brains in the early history of our lineage.
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    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002181107
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    Dietary change among hominins and cercopithecids in Ethiopia during the early Pliocene
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2015
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 112, No. 40 ( 2015-10-06), p. 12304-12309
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, No. 40 ( 2015-10-06), p. 12304-12309
    Abstract: The incorporation of C 4 resources into hominin diet signifies increased dietary breadth within hominins and divergence from the dietary patterns of other great apes. Morphological evidence indicates that hominin diet became increasingly diverse by 4.2 million years ago but may not have included large proportions of C 4 foods until 800 thousand years later, given the available isotopic evidence. Here we use carbon isotope data from early to mid Pliocene hominin and cercopithecid fossils from Woranso-Mille (central Afar, Ethiopia) to constrain the timing of this dietary change and its ecological context. We show that both hominins and some papionins expanded their diets to include C 4 resources as early as 3.76 Ma. Among hominins, this dietary expansion postdates the major dentognathic morphological changes that distinguish Australopithecus from Ardipithecus , but it occurs amid a continuum of adaptations to diets of tougher, harder foods and to committed terrestrial bipedality. In contrast, carbon isotope data from cercopithecids indicate that C 4 -dominated diets of the earliest members of the Theropithecus oswaldi lineage preceded the dental specialization for grazing but occurred after they were fully terrestrial. The combined data indicate that the inclusion of C 4 foods in hominin diet occurred as part of broader ecological changes in African primate communities.
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    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
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    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424982112
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