Author: John A. Van Couvering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-12-16
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0521617022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.
Author: Herbert Edgar Wright
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 0813720842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rolf W. Feyling-Hanssen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9788763512015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geological Society of London
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781862391819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the very nature of Quaternary climate change. Milankovitch theory, palaeoceanography using isotopes and microfossils, marine organic geochemistry, tephrochronology, the record of loess and soil deposition, terrestrial vegetational change, and the migration and evolution of hominins as well as other large and small mammals, are all considered. These themes combine to explore the very origins of our present biota.
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Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published:
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9788763512008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J M Harris
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781422374948
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Author: Waldo Heliodoor Zagwijn
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick E. Grine
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-05-24
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1402099800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are some issues in human paleontology that seem to be timeless. Most deal with the origin and early evolution of our own genus – something about which we should care. Some of these issues pertain to taxonomy and systematics. How many species of Homo were there in the Pliocene and Pleistocene? How do we identify the earliest members the genus Homo? If there is more than one Plio-Pleistocene species, how do they relate to one another, and where and when did they evolve? Other issues relate to questions about body size, proportions and the functional adaptations of the locomotor skeleton. When did the human postcranial “Bauplan” evolve, and for what reasons? What behaviors (and what behavioral limitations) can be inferred from the postcranial bones that have been attributed to Homo habilis and Homo erectus? Still other issues relate to growth, development and life history strategies, and the biological and archeological evidence for diet and behavior in early Homo. It is often argued that dietary change played an important role in the origin and early evolution of our genus, with stone tools opening up scavenging and hunting opportunities that would have added meat protein to the diet of Homo. Still other issues relate to the environmental and climatic context in which this genus evolved.