Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Mediterranean Neogene Continental Paleoenvironments and Climatic Evolution
Author: Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Neogene Micromammalian Faunas from the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Spain)
Author: M. FreudenthalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Scripta geologica
Author: Mediterranean and Paratethys Neogene
Author: Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene StratigraphyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
European Neogene Mammal Chronology
Author: Everett H. LindsayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489925139
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
During the last ZO years great progress has been achieved in our understanding of both earth history and vertebrate evolution. The result is that climatic/tectonic events in earth history can now be placed in a more precise and global time frame, that permit their evaluation as abiotic causal factors which might trigger extinction and dispersal events in vertebrate history. Great strides have also been made in genetics and cell biology, providing new insight into phylogenetic relationships among many vertebrates. These new data, along with data on chronologie resolution of earth history, provide tests of previous interpretations regarding ancestral-descendant relationships based solely on the fossil record. It is fitting and proper that a volume on European Neogene mammal chronology is produced at this time, to ensure that new interpretations of vertebrate evolution and chronology are based on the most accurate and current data. Vertebrate paleon tologists believe that the fossil record is the only secure data for measuring the actual course and tempo of vertebrate evolution. Knowledge of the fossil record must keep pace with advances in other areas of science so that inferences on vertebrate evolu tion are accurate and meaningful.
Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 1, The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe
Author: Jordi AgustÃPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521640978
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Reconstructs European and Mediterranean climate over the last 20 million years in relation to human evolution.
Neogene of the Mediterranean Tethys and Paratethys
Author: Fritz F. SteiningerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Webbia
Author: Ugolino MartelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins
Author: P. J. J. M. VerhallenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foraminifera, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Understanding Climate's Influence on Human Evolution
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309148383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture. The Earth's geological record suggests that some evolutionary events were coincident with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate, raising the possibility that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been affected by the environmental characteristics of the areas where hominins evolved. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution explores the opportunities of using scientific research to improve our understanding of how climate may have helped shape our species. Improved climate records for specific regions will be required before it is possible to evaluate how critical resources for hominins, especially water and vegetation, would have been distributed on the landscape during key intervals of hominin history. Existing records contain substantial temporal gaps. The book's initiatives are presented in two major research themes: first, determining the impacts of climate change and climate variability on human evolution and dispersal; and second, integrating climate modeling, environmental records, and biotic responses. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution.