TY - BOOK ID - 78942144 TI - Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence AU - Bobe, René AU - Alemseged, Zeresenay AU - Behrensmeyer, Anna K AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2007 SN - 9781402030987 PB - Dordrecht Springer DB - UniCat KW - General palaeontology KW - Evolution. Phylogeny KW - Vertebrates KW - Archeology KW - vertebraten KW - Europees recht KW - archeologie KW - paleontologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78942144 AB - Hominin fossils are few and fragmentary com- Evidence, provided the organizing framework pared with the abundant and well-preserved for this volume. The Smithsonian Workshop remains of mammals that inhabited Africa over on Faunal Evidence for Hominin Paleoeco- the last seven million years. This mammalian gy expanded on the discussions initiated at the record has been assembled from many decades symposium with a broader chronological (late of intensive ? eld and museum work and con- Cenozoic) and geographic (Africa and E- tributes critical evidence about the evolution- asia) framework. The Smithsonian workshop ary and ecological context of human evolution. brought together 44 scientists and students With continued collecting, analysis of paleoen- from Africa, Europe, and North America to vironmental information, and efforts to orga- inspire increased exchange of data and ideas, nize the information into accessible databases, promote greater standardization and accessib- the mammalian fossil record is providing more ity of faunal data, and lay the groundwork for comprehensive information on faunal change future collaborations and comparative research through time, regional variability, accessible on patterns of faunal change in the context of levels of temporal resolution, and the impact hominin evolution (Figure 1 (Photo)). of taphonomic and other sampling biases. ER -