We analyze functional richness and functional evenness of the carnivoran guild in eastern Africa from 3.5 Ma to 1.5 Ma, and compare them to the present day. The data consist of characters of the craniodental apparatus of 76 species of fossil and extant carnivorans, divided into four 0.5 Ma time slices from 3.5 to 1.5 Ma, together with the modern fauna. Focus is on large (>21.5 kg) carnivores. Results show that the large carnivore guild has lost nearly 99% of its functional richness since 3.5 Ma, in a process starting prior to 2 Ma. Measurement of functional evenness shows the modern large carnivore guild to be unique in being randomly distributed in morphospace while in all past time slices there is significant clustering of species. The re...
International audienceThe Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern ...
International audienceThe Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern ...
The appearance of Homo erectus shortly after 2.0 Ma is widely considered a turning point in human di...
We analyze functional richness and functional evenness of the carnivoran guild in eastern Africa fro...
<div><p>We analyze functional richness and functional evenness of the carnivoran guild in eastern Af...
While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental...
While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental...
While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental...
Werdelin, Lars, Lewis, Margaret E. (2005): Plio-Pleistocene Carnivora of eastern Africa: species ric...
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitati...
Communities of large mammals exhibit changes in morphological diversity through space and time; chan...
The ecological context of the first known dispersal of Homo into East Asia is investigated here usin...
<p>Humans are more carnivorous than other hominoids. It has been hypothesized that, during the evol...
Using long-term diet reconstructions spanning the past one million years, we contrast hypotheses tha...
Using long-term diet reconstructions spanning the past one million years, we contrast hypotheses tha...
International audienceThe Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern ...
International audienceThe Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern ...
The appearance of Homo erectus shortly after 2.0 Ma is widely considered a turning point in human di...
We analyze functional richness and functional evenness of the carnivoran guild in eastern Africa fro...
<div><p>We analyze functional richness and functional evenness of the carnivoran guild in eastern Af...
While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental...
While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental...
While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental...
Werdelin, Lars, Lewis, Margaret E. (2005): Plio-Pleistocene Carnivora of eastern Africa: species ric...
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitati...
Communities of large mammals exhibit changes in morphological diversity through space and time; chan...
The ecological context of the first known dispersal of Homo into East Asia is investigated here usin...
<p>Humans are more carnivorous than other hominoids. It has been hypothesized that, during the evol...
Using long-term diet reconstructions spanning the past one million years, we contrast hypotheses tha...
Using long-term diet reconstructions spanning the past one million years, we contrast hypotheses tha...
International audienceThe Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern ...
International audienceThe Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern ...
The appearance of Homo erectus shortly after 2.0 Ma is widely considered a turning point in human di...