Browsing by Author "Pilbeam, David"
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The Anthropoid Postcranial Axial Skeleton: Comments on Development, Variation, and Evolution
Pilbeam, David (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)Within-species phenotypic variation is the raw material on which natural selection acts to shape evolutionary change, and understanding more about the developmental genetics of intraspecific as well as interspecific ... -
The biomechanics and evolution of impact resistance in human walking and running
Addison, Brian (2016-01-12)How do humans generate and resist repetitive impact forces beneath the heel during walking and heel strike running? Due to the evolution of long day ranges and larger body sizes in the hominin lineage modern human ... -
Ecological Changes in Miocene Mammalian Record Show Impact of Prolonged Climatic Forcing
Badgley, Catherine; Barry, John C.; Morgan, Michele Elizabeth; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Cerling, Thure E.; Pilbeam, David (National Academy of Sciences, 2008)Geohistorical records reveal the long-term impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure. A 5-myr record of mammalian faunas from floodplain ecosystems of South Asia shows substantial change in species richness and ... -
Establishing Contexts of Encounters: Radiocarbon Dating of Archaeological Assemblages With Implications for Neanderthal-Modern Human Interactions
Alex, Bridget Annelia (2016-05-10)This dissertation seeks to reconstruct the distribution of Neanderthals and modern humans in time and geographic space in order to better understand the nature of interactions between the groups. Because human fossils from ... -
Lateral Trends in Carbon Isotope Ratios Reveal a Miocene Vegetation Gradient in the Siwaliks of Pakistan
Morgan, Michele Elizabeth; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Badgley, Catherine; Barry, John C.; Nelson, Sherry; Pilbeam, David (Geological Society of America, 2009)Isotopic analyses of mammalian tooth enamel from a well-defined, laterally extensive 150 k.y. interval (9.15–9.30 Ma) reveal an ecological gradient in vegetation on the late Miocene sub-Himalayan alluvial plain. Two ... -
Morphological Affinities of the Sahelanthropus Tchadensis (Late Miocene Hominid from Chad) Cranium
Guy, Franck; Lieberman, Daniel Eric; Pilbeam, David; Ponce de Leon, Marcia; Likius, Andossa; Mackaye, Hassane T.; Vignaud, Patrick; Zollikofer, Christoph; Brunet, Michel (National Academy of Sciences, 2005)The recent reconstruction of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis cranium (TM 266-01-60-1) provides an opportunity to examine in detail differences in cranial shape between this earliest-known hominid, African apes, and other ... -
New Material of the Earliest Hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad
Brunet, Michel; Guy, Franck; Pilbeam, David; Lieberman, Daniel Eric; Likius, Andossa; Mackaye, Hassane T.; Ponce de Leon, Marcia S.; Zollikofer, Christoph P. E.; Vignaud, Patrick (Nature Publishing Group, 2005) -
A partial hominoid innominate from the Miocene of Pakistan: Description and preliminary analyses
Morgan, Michele Elizabeth; Lewton, Kristi L.; Kelley, Jay; Otarola-Castillo, Erik; Barry, John Chase; Flynn, Lawrence John; Pilbeam, David (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)We describe a partial innominate, YGSP 41216, from a 12.3 Ma locality in the Siwalik Group of the Potwar Plateau in Pakistan, assigned to the Middle Miocene ape species Sivapithecus indicus. We investigate the implications ... -
Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia
Flynn, Lawrence John; Pilbeam, David; Barry, John Chase; Morgan, Michele Elizabeth; Raza, Syed Mahmood (Elsevier BV, 2016)The Tertiary sediments of northern Pakistan are an exceptional record of terrestrial sedimentation and represent most of Neogene time. Foremost is the Siwalik Group of the Potwar Plateau, for which multiple, superposed ... -
Virtual Cranial Reconstruction of Sahelanthropus Tchadensis
Zollikofer, Christoph P. E.; Ponce de Leon, Marcia; Lieberman, Daniel Eric; Guy, Franck; Pilbeam, David; Likius, Andossa; Mackaye, Hassane T.; Vignaud, Patrick; Brunet, Michel (Nature Publishing Group, 2005)