Dedication ...................................................... v
Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
List of Contributors ........................................... xi
Foreword ..................................................... xiii
A.K. Behrensmeyer, Z. Alemseged, and R. Bobe
Preface ...................................................... xvii
A. Hill
1. Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during
the East African Pliocene .................................... 1
A.K. Behrensmeyer, R. Bobe, and Z. Alemseged
2. Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution ........ 25
R. Potts
3. African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution
and global climatic change .................................. 51
S.R. Frost
4. Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of
eastern Africa: Implications for hominin evolution .......... 77
M.E. Lewis and L. Werdelin
5. Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura
Formation and some coeval deposits ......................... 107
H.B.S. Cooke
6. Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic
bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and
Ethiopia ................................................... 129
R. Bobe, A.K. Behrensmeyer, G.G. Eck, and J.M. Harris
7. Comparability of fossil data and its significance for
the interpretation of hominin environments: A case study
in the lower Ото Valley, Ethiopia .......................... 159
Z. Alemseged, R. Bobe, and D. Geraads
8. The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal
recovery: A case study of the American and French
collections from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia .......... 183
G.G. Eck
9. Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai
paleoenvironments .......................................... 217
D.N. Reed
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