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This volume brings together faunal analysts working at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. Although most chapters focus on the vertebrate fauna of particular localities, authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns across localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.

Animals, Fossil. --- Archaeology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Fossil hominids. --- Geology, Stratigraphic. --- Paleoanthropology. --- Paleontology. --- Taphonomy. --- Vertebrates. --- Zoological surveys. --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Paleobotany --- Zoology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vertebrates --- Physical Anthropology --- Paleontology --- Human evolution --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Earth sciences. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Historical geology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Origin --- Paleontology . --- Archeology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Vertebrata --- Chordata

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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.

General palaeontology --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Vertebrates --- Archeology --- vertebraten --- Europees recht --- archeologie --- paleontologie