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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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Published in:Ecol Lett
Main Authors: Faurby, Søren, Silvestro, Daniele, Werdelin, Lars, Antonelli, Alexandre
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079157/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31943670
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13451
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