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Tectonic Uplift and Eastern Africa Aridification
- P. Sepulchre, G. Ramstein, F. Fluteau, M. Schuster, J. Tiercelin, M. Brunet
- Geology, Medicine
- Science
- 8 September 2006
The history of Eastern African hominids has been linked to a progressive increase of open grassland during the past 8 million years. This trend was explained by global climatic processes, which do… Expand
A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa
- M. Brunet, F. Guy, +35 authors C. Zollikofer
- Biology, Geology
- Nature
- 11 July 2002
The search for the earliest fossil evidence of the human lineage has been concentrated in East Africa. Here we report the discovery of six hominid specimens from Chad, central Africa, 2,500 km from… Expand
Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad
- P. Vignaud, P. Duringer, +18 authors M. Brunet
- Geology, Medicine
- Nature
- 11 July 2002
All six known specimens of the early hominid Sahelanthropus tchadensis come from Toros-Menalla site 266 (TM 266), a single locality in the Djurab Desert, northern Chad, central Africa. Here we… Expand
New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad
- M. Brunet, F. Guy, +6 authors P. Vignaud
- Medicine, Geography
- Nature
- 7 April 2005
Discoveries in Chad by the Mission Paléoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne have substantially changed our understanding of early human evolution in Africa. In particular, the TM 266 locality in the… Expand
The first australopithecine 2,500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad)
- M. Brunet, Alain Beauvilain, Y. Coppens, É. Heintz, A. H. E. Moutaye, D. Pilbeam
- Geography, Medicine
- Nature
- 16 November 1995
THE first sites with Pliocene and Pleistocene mammals west of the Rift Valley in Central Africa in northern Chad were reported in 1959 (ref. 1), and documented the presence of mixed savannah and… Expand
The Age of the Sahara Desert
- M. Schuster, P. Duringer, +4 authors M. Brunet
- Geography, Medicine
- Science
- 10 February 2006
In the Sahara region, the age of onset of the desert condition has been uncertain until now. Here we report on the discovery of 7,000,000-year-old eolian dune deposits from the northern Chad Basin.… Expand
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad
- Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, D. Bourlès, +11 authors M. Brunet
- Geology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 4 March 2008
Ages were determined at two hominid localities from the Chad Basin in the Djurab Desert (Northern Chad). In the Koro Toro fossiliferous area, KT 12 locality (16°00′N, 18°53′E) was the site of… Expand
Macrovertebrate Paleontology and the Pliocene Habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus
- T. White, S. Ambrose, +18 authors E. Vrba
- Geography, Medicine
- Science
- 2 October 2009
A diverse assemblage of large mammals is spatially and stratigraphically associated with Ardipithecus ramidus at Aramis. The most common species are tragelaphine antelope and colobine monkeys.… Expand
Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis
- Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, M. P. D. León, +6 authors M. Brunet
- Geography, Medicine
- Nature
- 7 April 2005
Previous research in Chad at the Toros-Menalla 266 fossiliferous locality (about 7 million years old) uncovered a nearly complete cranium (TM 266-01-60-1), three mandibular fragments and several… Expand
The position of Hippopotamidae within Cetartiodactyla.
- J. Boisserie, F. Lihoreau, M. Brunet
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 1 February 2005
The origin of late Neogene Hippopotamidae (Artiodactyla) involves one of the most serious conflicts between comparative anatomy and molecular biology: is Artiodactyla paraphyletic? Molecular… Expand
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