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High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol c...

High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol c...

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High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

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High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2010-06, Vol.107 (25), p.11245-11249

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English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage of human evolution. Here we show t...

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High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_733401372

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_733401372

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1001824107

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