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Potts, Richard. "Variability Selection in Hominid Evolution." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 7, no. 3 (1998): 81-96.
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Grove, Matt. "Speciation, Diversity, and Mode 1 Technologies: The Impact of Variability Selection." Journal of Human Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 306-19.
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Grove, Matt. "Change and Variability in Plio-Pleistocene Climates: Modelling the Hominin Response." Journal of Archaeological Science 38 (2011): 3038-047.
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"Climatic Fluctuations Drove Key Events in Human Evolution, Researchers Find." Science Daily. September 26, 2011.
Potts, R. "Evolution and Climate Variability." Science, 1996, 922-23.
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Maslin and Trauth, "Plio-Pleistocene East African Pulsed Climate Variability and Its Influence on Early Human Evolution", The First Humans – Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology 2009, pp 151-158
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Potts, Richard. "Environmental Hypotheses for Human Evolution." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1998.
Shultz, Susanne, Mark Maslin, and Michael D. Petraglia. "Early Human Speciation, Brain Expansion and Dispersal Influenced by African Climate Pulses." PLoS ONE 8, no. 10 (2013): E76750.
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"Human Evolution Driven by Climate Change." UCL News, October 17, 2013.
Borg, JM, and Alastair Channon. "Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments." Artificial Life 13, 2012, 317-24. January 1, 2012.
Mark A. Maslin, Chris M. Brierley, Alice M. Milner, Susanne Shultz, Martin H. Trauth, Katy E. Wilson, East African climate pulses and early human evolution, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 101, 1 October 2014, Pages 1-17.
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Joyce, Christopher. "Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?" NPR, March 22, 2010. Accessed August 11, 2014.
Human Origins: One Man's Search for the Causes in Time. AnthroNotes, Museum of Natural History's Publication for Educators, Vol 22, No, 1. Spring/Summer 1999.
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"New Exhibition Hall Devoted to Human Origins Opens at National Museum of Natural History". National Museum of Natural History. March 2010.
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The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. National Muesum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. An ongoing exhibition opened March 17, 2010. Museum Anthropology Review
Suggested edits: Include new section about Olorgesailie Drilling Project, as well as update existing sections for accuracy and detail. History of excavation at the site, the various prehistoric environmental conditions, information about the fauna (including updating the bit where it says that the animals were likely butchered, which aside from one known butchery site, is not accurate), are all examples of sections that need more information.
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"Olorgesailie – Stone Age Site in Kenya". About.com
Willoughby, Pamela R. The Evolution of Modern Humans in Africa: A Comprehensive Guide. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007.
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Nicholls, Christine Stephanie (2005). Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya. Timewell Press.
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Oliver, Roland Anthony. The African Experience: From Olduvai Gorge to the 21st Century. Revised/Expanded ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000.
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Bye, Bethany A., Francis H. Brown, Thure E. Cerling, and Ian Mcdougall. "Increased Age Estimate for the Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site at Olorgesailie, Kenya." Nature, 1987, 237-39.
Conde, Camilo Jose, and Francisco Jose Ayala. Human Evolution Trails from the past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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"First Human Fossil Found at Olorgesailie (Kenya) Field Site; Smithsonian Scientist Makes Dramatic Discovery". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History news release. 1 July 2004.
Potts, R. 1994. Variables versus models of early Pleistocene hominid land use. Journal of Human Evolution, 27, 7–24.
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Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn, and Barbara Isaac. Olorgesailie: Archeological Studies of a Middle Pleistocene Lake Basin in Kenya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Melson, William G., and Richard Potts. "Origin of Reddened and Melted Zones in Pleistocene Sediments of the Olorgesailie Basin, Southern Kenya Rift." Journal of Archaeological Science 29:307-16.
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Owen, R. Bernhart, Richard Potts, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Peter Ditchfield. "Diatomaceous Sediments and Environmental Change in the Pleistocene Olorgesailie Formation, Southern Kenya Rift Valley." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology: 17-37
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Owen, R. Bernhart, Robin W. Renaut, Jennifer J. Scott, Richard Potts, and Anna K. Behrensmeyer. "Wetland Sedimentation and Associated Diatoms in the Pleistocene Olorgesailie Basin, Southern Kenya Rift Valley." Sedimentary Geology 222 (2009): 124-37.
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Potts, Richard. "Olorgesailie: New Excavations and Findings in Early and Middle Pleistocene Contexts, Southern Kenya Rift Valley." Journal of Human Evolution 18 (1989): 477-84.
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Potts, Richard. "Variability Selection in Hominid Evolution." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 7, no. 3 (1998): 81-96.
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Potts, Richard, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Peter Ditchfield. "Paleolandscape Variation and Early Pleistocene Hominid Activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya." Journal of Human Evolution 37 (1999): 345-46.
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Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., et al., 2004. Small Mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology. Science 305, 75-78.
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Sikes, N.E., Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., 1999. Early Pleistocene habitat in Member 1 Olorgesailie based on paleosol stable isotopes. Journal of Human Evolution 37, 721-746.
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Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn. The Acheulean Site Complex at Olorgesailie, Kenya: A Contribution to the Interpretation of Middle Pleistocene Culture in East Africa. 1968.
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Isaac, Glynn L. A study of early culture in Kenya : the Olorgesailie prehistoric site
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Noll, Michael Peter (2000). Components of acheulean lithic assemblage variability at Olorgesailie, Kenya
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Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems / / [edited by] Mark Aldenderfer, Herbert D.G. Maschner.
Teacher's guide to early prehistory of East Africa / / produced by the Education Section, National Museums of Kenya.
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Calvin, William H. A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Boyd, Robert, Morris Goodman, and Anne Simon Moffat. Probing Human Origins. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002.
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Conde, Camilo Jose, and Francisco Jose Ayala. Human Evolution Trails from the past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Phillipson, D. W. African Archaeology. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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Walter, Marius J., and Martin H. Trauth. "A MATLAB Based Orientation Analysis of Acheulean Handaxe Accumulations in Olorgesailie and Kariandusi, Kenya Rift." Journal of Human Evolution 64, no. 6 (2013): 569-81.
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Homa Peninsula
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L. C. Bishop et al., Recent Research into Oldowan Hominin Activities at Kanjera South,Western Kenya. Afr Archaeol Rev (2006) 23:31–40
Ditchfield, Peter, et. Al. Current research on the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits north of Homa Mountain, southwestern Kenya, Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 36 Issue 2, 1999
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Plummer, T., Late Pliocene Oldowan excavations at Kanjera South, Kenya, Antiquity, 2001, vol. 75 issue 201
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Braun, David R., et al., Oldowan behavior and raw material transport: perspectives from the Kanjera formation, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 35, issue 8, 2008.
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Nihewan Basin
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Stephen Chen (28 June 2010). "Finds in Hebei Basin May Rewrite History". South China Morning Post.
Hong Ao, Mark J. Dekkers, Qi Wei, Xiaoke Qiang, Guoqiao Xiao (15 August 2013). "New evidence for early presence of hominids in North China". Scientific Reports 3 (2403).
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"Earliest Humans in China". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Zhu R.X., Hoffman, K.A., Potts, R., Deng C.L., Pan Y.X., Guo B., Shi C.D., Guo G.T., Yuan B.Y., Hou Y.M., Huang W.W., 2001. Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia. Nature 413, 413-417.
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Zhu, R., An, Z., Potts, R., Hoffman, K.A., 2003. Magnetostratigraphic dating of early humans in China. Earth-Science Reviews 61, 341-359
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Zhu, R., Potts, R., Xie, F., Hoffman, K.A., Deng, C.L., Shi, C.D., Pan, Y.X., Wang, H.Q., Shi, R.P., Wang, Y.C., Xhi, G.H., Wu, N.Q., 2004. New evidence regarding the earliest human presence at high northern latitudes in northeast Asia. Nature 431, 559-562.
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Zhu, R.X., Potts, R., Pan, Y.X.,Yao, H.T., Lü, L.Q., Zhao, X. Gao, X., Chen, L.W., Gao, F., Deng, C.L., 2008. Early evidence of the genus Homo in East Asia. Journal of Human Evolution 55, 1075-1085.
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Clark, J. Desmond, and Timothy Troy. An Archaeologist at Work in African Prehistory and Early Human Studies: Teamwork and Insight. Berkeley: Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
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Norton, Christopher J. Asian Paleoanthropology from Africa to China and beyond. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
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Shen, Chen. Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003.
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Cai, Bao-quan, Shao-hua Zheng, Joseph C. Liddicoat, and Qiang Li. "Review of the Litho-, Bio-, and Chronostratigraphy in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei, China." In Fossil Mammals of Asia Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology. ed. by Wang, Xiaoming,. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
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Schick, Kathy, Nicholas Toth, Wei Qi, J. Desmond Clark, and Dennis Etler. "Archaeological Perspectives in the Nihewan Basin, China." Journal of Human Evolution 21, no. 1 (1991): 13-26.
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Keates, Susan G. "Evidence for the Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Activity in the Nihewan Basin of Northern China." Quaternary International, 2010, 408-17.
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Yuanmou Prehistoric Site
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Pu, L., C. Fang, M. Hsing-Hua, P. Ching-Yu, H. Li-Sheng, and C. Shih-Chiang. "Preliminary Study on the Age of Yuanmou Man by Palaeomagnetic Technique." Scientia Sinica 20, no. 5 (1977): 645-64.
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Ciochon, Russell L. "The Mystery Ape of Pleistocene Asia." Nature, 2009, 910-11.
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Pope, G. G. "Evidence on the Age of the Asian Hominidae." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1983, 4988-992.
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Qian F, Li Q, Wu P, Yuan S, Xing R, Chen H, and Zhang H (1991). Lower Pleistocene, Yuanmou Formation: Quaternary Geology and Paleoanthropology of Yuanmou, Yunnan, China. Beijing: Science Press, pp. 17-50
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"The Archaeology of Ancient China", 1986, Chang Kwang-chih, p. 39-40
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Zhu, R.x., R. Potts, Y.x. Pan, L.q. Lü, H.t. Yao, C.l. Deng, and H.f. Qin. "Paleomagnetism of the Yuanmou Basin near the Southeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau and Its Constraints on Late Neogene Sedimentation and Tectonic Rotation." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008, 97-104.
Hyodo, Masayuki, Hideo Nakaya, Atsushi Urabe, Haruo Saegusa, Xue Shunrong, Yin Jiyun, and Ji Xuepin. "Paleomagnetic Dates of Hominid Remains from Yuanmou, China, and Other Asian Sites." Journal of Human Evolution 43, no. 1 (2002): 27-41.
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Formation of Chinese Civilization: The Origin of Man
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Brown, P.; Sutikna, T., Morwood, M. J., Soejono, R. P., Jatmiko, Wayhu Saptomo, E. & Rokus Awe Due (October 27, 2004). "A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.". Nature, 431
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Meijer HJM & R A Due (2010). "A new species of giant marabou stork (Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 707–724.
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Morwood, M. J.; Soejono, R. P., Roberts, R. G., Sutikna, T., Turney, C. S. M., Westaway, K. E., Rink, W. J., Zhao, J.- X., van den Bergh, G. D., Rokus Awe Due, Hobbs, D. R., Moore, M. W., Bird, M. I. & Fifield, L. K. (October 27, 2004). "Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia.". Nature 431: 1087–1091.
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Penny Van Oosterzee; Mike Morwood. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia'. London: Collins.
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Hari, Kurniawan. "Sutikna Traces Man's Ancestry through Liang Bua Find." The Jakarta Post, April 17, 2008, Life sec.
Morwood, M.J., O’Sullivan, P., Aziz, F., Raza, A., 1998. Fission track age of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores. Nature 392, 173–176.
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Morwood, M.J., Sutikna, T., Saptomo, E.W., Jatmiko, Hobbs, D.R., Westaway, K.E., 2009. Preface: research at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution 57, 437–449.
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van den Bergh, G.D., Mubroto, B., Sondaar, P.Y., de Vos, J., 1996. Did Homo erectus reach the island of Flores? Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin (Chiang Mai Papers) 14, 27–36.
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Aziz, F., van den Bergh, G.D., Morwood, M.J., Hobbs, D.R., Collins, J., Jatmiko, Kurniawan, I., 2009. Excavations at Tangi Talo, central Flores, Indonesia. In: Aziz, F., Morwood, M.J., van den Bergh, G.D. (Eds.), Palaeontology and Archaeology of the Soa Basin, Central Flores, Indonesia. Indonesian Geological Survey Institute, Bandung, pp. 41–58.
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Morwood, M.j., and W.l. Jungers. "Conclusions: Implications of the Liang Bua Excavations for Hominin Evolution and Biogeography." Journal of Human Evolution, 2009, 640-48.
Locatelli, Elisa, Rokus Awe Due, Gert D. Van Den Bergh, and Lars W. Van Den Hoek Ostende. "Pleistocene Survivors and Holocene Extinctions: The Giant Rats from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)." Quaternary International 281 (2012): 47-57.
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Soa Basin
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Brumm, A.; Aziz, F.; Van Den Bergh, G. D.; Morwood, M. J.; Moore, M. W.; Kurniawan, I.; Hobbs, D. R.; Fullagar, R. (2006). "Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis". Nature 441 (7093): 624–628
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Brumm, Adam, Gitte M. Jensen, Gert D. Van Den Bergh, Michael J. Morwood, Iwan Kurniawan, Fachroel Aziz, and Michael Storey. "Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by One Million Years Ago." Nature, 2010, 748-52.
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Aziz, F., van den Bergh, G.D., Morwood, M.J., Hobbs, D.R., Collins, J., Jatmiko, Kurniawan, I., 2009. Excavations at Tangi Talo, central Flores, Indonesia. In: Aziz, F., Morwood, M.J., van den Bergh, G.D. (Eds.), Palaeontology and Archaeology of the Soa Basin, Central Flores, Indonesia. Indonesian Geological Survey Institute, Bandung, pp. 41–58.
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Moore, Mark W., and Adam Brumm. "Stone Artifacts and Hominins in Island Southeast Asia: New Insights from Flores, Eastern Indonesia." Journal of Human Evolution 52, no. 1 (2007): 85-102.
Aziz, Fachroel, M.J. Morwood, and G.D. Van Den Bergh. Pleistocene Geology, Palaeontology and Archaeology of the Soa Basin, Central Flores, Indonesia. Bandung, Indonesia: Pusat Survei Geologi, Badan Geologi, Departemen Energi Dan Sumber Daya Mineral, 2008.
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Garvey, J. June 01, 2011. Review of PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY, PALAEONTOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOA BASIN, CENTRAL FLORES, INDONESIA. Australian archaeology no. 72.
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Meijer, Hanneke J. M., Lars W. Van Den Hoek Ostende, Gert D. Van Den Bergh, and John De Vos. "The Fellowship of the Hobbit: The Fauna Surrounding Homo Floresiensis." Journal of Biogeography 37, no. 6 (2010): 995-1006.
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Hocknull SA, Piper PJ, van den Bergh GD, Due RA, Morwood MJ, et al. (2009) Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of the Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae). PLoS ONE 4(9): e7241. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007241
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van de Bergh, G.D. "The Liang Bua Faunal Remains: A 95 K.yr. Sequence from Flores, East Indonesia." Journal of Human Evolution, 2008.
Potts, Richard, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Peter Ditchfield. "Paleolandscape Variation and Early Pleistocene Hominid Activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya." Journal of Human Evolution 37, no. 5 (1999): 345-46.
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Potts, Richard, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Peter Ditchfield. "Paleolandscape Variation and Early Pleistocene Hominid Activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya." Journal of Human Evolution 37, no. 5 (1999): 345-46.
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Day 10 (July 5, 2011): Olorgesailie - the Big Picture
Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems: "The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archaeological Locality"
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John Gurche
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A scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones
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Thorne, Alan, C.p. Grove, Mario Chech, and Erik Trinkaus. "A New Reconstruction of the Shanidar 5 Cranium." Paléorient 25, no. 2 (1999): 143-46.
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Trinkaus, Erik. The Shanidar Neandertals. New York: Academic Press, 1983.
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Trinkaus, Erik, and David D. Thompson. "Femoral Diaphyseal Histomorphometric Age Determinations for the Shanidar 3, 4, 5, and 6 Neandertals and Neandertal Longevity."American Journal of Physical Anthropology 72, no. 1 (2005): 123-29.
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Cowgill, L., E. Trinkaus, and M. Zeder. "Shanidar 10: A Middle Paleolithic Immature Distal Lower Limb from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan." Journal of Human Evolution 53 (2007): 213-23.
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Henry, A. G., A. S. Brooks, and D. R. Piperno. "Microfossils in Calculus Demonstrate Consumption of Plants and Cooked Foods in Neanderthal Diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011, 486-91.
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List of human evolution fossils
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Hou Y., Potts, R., Yuan, B., Guo, Z., Deino, A., Wang, W., Clark, J., Xie, G., Huang, W., 2000. Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like stone technology of the Bose Basin, South China. Science 287, 1622-1626.
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Potts, R., 2001. Mid-Pleistocene environmental change and human evolution. In Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene (L. Barham and K. Robson-Brown, eds.), Western Academic Press, Bristol, pp. 5-21.
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Wang, W., Potts, R., Yuan, B.Y., Huang, W.W., Hai, C., Edwards, R.L., Ditchfield, P., 2007. Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominid teeth, from the Bose region caves, south China. Journal of Human Evolution 52, 370-379.
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Wang, Wei, Stephen J. Lycett, Noreen Von Cramon-Taubadel, Jennie J. H. Jin, Christopher J. Bae, and Fred H. Smith. "Comparison of Handaxes from Bose Basin (China) and the Western Acheulean Indicates Convergence of Form, Not Cognitive Differences." PLoS ONE, 2012.
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Wang, Wei, Jinyou Mo, and Zhitao Huang. "Recent Discovery of Handaxes Associated with Tektites in the Nanbanshan Locality of the Damei Site, Bose Basin, Guangxi, South China."Chinese Science Bulletin 53, no. 6 (2008): 878-83.
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"Bose Basin" in Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution
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Rudolph F. Zallinger
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Effects of climate change on humans
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Cohen, A., Arrowsmith, R., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Campisano, C., Feibel, C., Fisseha, S., Johnson, R., Bedaso, Z. K., Lockwood, C., Mbua, E., Olago, D., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Tiercelin, J.-J., Umer, M. (2009): Understanding Paleoclimate and Human Evolution Through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. - Scientific Drilling, (8), p. 60-65.
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Project Overview for Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Driling Project
Suggested edit: Update with new information about early members of genus Homo published in the following Science paper:
Antón, Susan C., Richard Potts, and Leslie C. Aiello. "Evolution of Early Homo: An Integrated Biological Perspective." Science 345, no. 6192 (2014) [DOI:10.1126/science.1236828].
the founder and first editor of Technical Studies. (Gettens and Stout co-authored Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia, first published in 1942 and reprinted in 1966.)
Every person and expedition listed in this to-do list is included in the Field Book Project and in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Here you will find a link to an article that needs improvement or an article that needs to be created. You will also find images and other resources to help you get started and other Smithsonian Institution resources for use!
Rediscovered Anomochloa in 1976 with assistant Sr. Talmon dos Santos in Bahia, Brazil. This tropical forest grass had died out, so this was a tremendous discovery and set the path for Judziewicz and Soderstrom (1989) to do a detailed morphological and anatomical study. This study confirmed Anomochloa was a grass and offered insight into its peculiar flowering structures.
Deposited approximately 1000 collections, many of them bamboo, at the U.S. National Herbarium
President (1950 – 1952, 1969-1971; VP ‘67-‘68) and long-standing executive committee member of Virginia Society of Ornithology (Chairman of various sections, too)[223]
Virginia Society of Ornithology (VSO) James W. Eike Service Award created in his honor in 1984 [224][225]
Papers held by Smithsonian Institution Archives – over 111 field books – part of Field Book Registry
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