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SUBMITTER: Cerling TE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4577203 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cerling Thure E TE Andanje Samuel A SA Blumenthal Scott A SA Brown Francis H FH Chritz Kendra L KL Harris John M JM Hart John A JA Kirera Francis M FM Kaleme Prince P Leakey Louise N LN Leakey Meave G MG Levin Naomi E NE Manthi Fredrick Kyalo FK Passey Benjamin H BH Uno Kevin T KT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150803 37
A large stable isotope dataset from East and Central Africa from ca. 30 regional collection sites that range from forest to grassland shows that most extant East and Central African large herbivore taxa have diets dominated by C4 grazing or C3 browsing. Comparison with the fossil record shows that faunal assemblages from ca. 4.1-2.35 Ma in the Turkana Basin had a greater diversity of C3-C4 mixed feeding taxa than is presently found in modern East and Central African environments. In contrast, th ...[more]