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SUBMITTER: Faurby S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079157 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology letters 20200113 3
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 analyse the diversity of carnivores over the last four million years and investigate whether any decline is related to an increase in hominin cognitive capacity, vegetation changes or climatic changes. We f ...[more]