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Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa

While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental effect of hominins on co‐occurring biodiversity is a recent phenomenon or has also been the pattern for earlier hominin species. We test this using the East African carnivore fossil record. We analys...

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Autores principales: Faurby, Søren, Silvestro, Daniele, Werdelin, Lars, Antonelli, Alexandre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31943670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13451