Aridification and orbital forcing of eastern African climate during the Plio-Pleistocene

Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago

(2021) Julio Mercader et al.   Nature Communications

New hominin remains and revised context from the earliest Homo erectus locality in East Turkana, Kenya

(2021) Ashley S. Hammond et al.   Nature Communications

Contracting eastern African C4 grasslands during the extinction of Paranthropus boisei

(2021) Rhonda L. Quinn et al.   Scientific Reports

Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution

(2021) Martin H. Trauth et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Future Changes in the Indian Ocean Walker Circulation and Links to Kenyan Rainfall

(2021) James A. King et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Orbital Influence on Precipitation, Fire, and Grass Community Composition From 1.87 to 1.38 Ma in the Turkana Basin, Kenya

(2021) Chad L. Yost et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Dampened El Niño in the Early Pliocene Warm Period

(2020) S. M. White et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa

(2020) Andy I. R. Herries et al.   SCIENCE

Representation of the Indian Ocean Walker circulation in climate models and links to Kenyan rainfall

(2020) James A. King et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Multiple drivers of Miocene C4 ecosystem expansions

(2020) Enno Schefuß et al.   Nature Geoscience

Calcium isotopic ecology of Turkana Basin hominins

(2020) Jeremy E. Martin et al.   Nature Communications

Influences of dietary niche expansion and Pliocene environmental changes on the origins of stone tool making

(2020) Rhonda L. Quinn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4foods in eastern AfricanParanthropus

(2020) Jonathan G. Wynn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abrupt climate change and its influences on hominin evolution during the early Pleistocene in the Turkana Basin, Kenya

(2020) Rachel L. Lupien et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evolution of the oligotrophic West Pacific Warm Pool during the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary

(2020) Himanshu Bali et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Environmental comparisons of the Awash Valley, Turkana Basin and lower Omo Valley from upper Miocene to Holocene as assessed from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of mammalian enamel

(2020) Jesseca Paquette et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mapping Solar System chaos with the Geological Orrery

(2019) Paul E. Olsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Time scale evaluation and the quantification of obliquity forcing

(2019) Christian Zeeden et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Acycle: Time-series analysis software for paleoclimate research and education

(2019) Mingsong Li et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification

(2019) Pratigya J. Polissar et al.   Nature Geoscience

Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana supports a dietary shift within the genus Homo

(2019) David B. Patterson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Pliocene Warmth Consistent With Greenhouse Gas Forcing

(2019) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Temporal and Stratigraphic Framework for Paleoanthropology Sites Within East-Central Area 130, Koobi Fora, Kenya

(2019) Sara Mana et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Constraints on Fe‐Oxide Formation in Monsoonal Vertisols of Pliocene Kenya Using Rock Magnetism and Spectroscopy

(2019) Christopher J. Lepre   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Vegetation change in the Baringo Basin, East Africa across the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 3.3–2.6 Ma

(2019) Rachel L. Lupien et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa

(2018) Sharon E. Nicholson   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa

(2018) Thibaut Caley et al.   NATURE

Lake-level changes and hominin occupations in the arid Turkana basin during volcanic closure of the Omo River outflows to the Indian Ocean

(2018) Xavier Boës et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts

(2018) J. Tyler Faith et al.   SCIENCE

Glacial changes in tropical climate amplified by the Indian Ocean

(2018) Pedro N. DiNezio et al.   Science Advances

Orbitally-driven evolution of Lake Turkana (Turkana Depression, Kenya, EARS) between 1.95 and 1.72 Ma: A sequence stratigraphy perspective

(2017) Alexis Nutz et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

Aridity and hominin environments

(2017) Scott A. Blumenthal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa

(2017) Sharon E. Nicholson   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Late Holocene slowdown of the Indian Ocean Walker circulation

(2017) Mahyar Mohtadi et al.   Nature Communications

Hominin taxic diversity: Fact or fantasy?

(2016) Bernard Wood et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Cooling and drying in northeast Africa across the Pliocene

(2016) Hannah M. Liddy et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years

(2016) T. C. Johnson et al.   NATURE

The climate response of the Indo-Pacific warm pool to glacial sea level

(2016) Pedro N. Di Nezio et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Neogene biomarker record of vegetation change in eastern Africa

(2016) Kevin T. Uno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environment and Climate of Early Human Evolution

(2015) Naomi E. Levin   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The evolution of the equatorial thermocline and the early Pliocene El Padre mean state

(2015) Heather L. Ford et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The Annual Cycle of East African Precipitation

(2015) Wenchang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution

(2015) Richard Potts et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Chronostratigraphy of KNM-ER 3733 and other Area 104 hominins from Koobi Fora

(2015) Christopher J. Lepre et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity

(2015) Yohannes Haile-Selassie et al.   NATURE

3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

(2015) Sonia Harmand et al.   NATURE

The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

(2015) Timothy M. Shanahan et al.   Nature Geoscience

Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma

(2015) Thure E. Cerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia

(2015) E. N. DiMaggio et al.   SCIENCE

Past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa

(2015) J. E. Tierney et al.   Science Advances

Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

(2014) Wenju Cai et al.   NATURE

Early Pleistocene lake formation and hominin origins in the Turkana–Omo rift

(2014) Christopher J. Lepre   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

East African climate pulses and early human evolution

(2014) Mark A. Maslin et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective

(2014) S. C. Anton et al.   SCIENCE

A 12-Million-Year Temperature History of the Tropical Pacific Ocean

(2014) Y. G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Northeast African vegetation change over 12 m.y.

(2013) S. J. Feakins et al.   GEOLOGY

Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic evidence for wooded habitat preference of early Pleistocene tool makers in the Turkana Basin

(2013) Rhonda L. Quinn et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth

(2013) A. V. Fedorov et al.   NATURE

Projected response of the Indian Ocean Dipole to greenhouse warming

(2013) Wenju Cai et al.   Nature Geoscience

The effect of sea level on glacial Indo-Pacific climate

(2013) Pedro N. DiNezio et al.   Nature Geoscience

Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins

(2013) T. E. Cerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia

(2013) Y. Beyene et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Bayesian approach to detecting change points in climatic records

(2012) Eric Ruggieri   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

New single crystal 40Ar/39Ar ages improve time scale for deposition of the Omo Group, Omo–Turkana Basin, East Africa

(2012) Ian McDougall et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo

(2012) Meave G. Leakey et al.   NATURE

An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin

(2011) Josephine C.A. Joordens et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

An earlier origin for the Acheulian

(2011) Christopher J. Lepre et al.   NATURE

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

(2011) Thure E. Cerling et al.   NATURE

Paleosol carbonates from the Omo Group: Isotopic records of local and regional environmental change in East Africa

(2011) Naomi E. Levin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Persistent El Niño-Southern Oscillation variation during the Pliocene Epoch

(2011) N. Scroxton et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Nonlinear detection of paleoclimate-variability transitions possibly related to human evolution

(2011) J. F. Donges et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intensification of the Walker and Hadley atmospheric circulations during the Pliocene–Pleistocene climate transition

(2010) J. Etourneau et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

New magnetostratigraphy for the Olduvai Subchron in the Koobi Fora Formation, northwest Kenya, with implications for early Homo

(2010) Christopher J. Lepre et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

(2010) B. H. Passey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa

(2010) L. R. Berger et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical Ocean Temperatures Over the Past 3.5 Million Years

(2010) T. D. Herbert et al.   SCIENCE

Scale and the isotopic record of C4plants in pedogenic carbonate: from the biome to the rhizosphere

(2009) H. Curtis Monger et al.   ECOLOGY

Seasonal bias in the formation and stable isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate in modern soils from central New Mexico, USA

(2009) D.O. Breecker et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

New evidence for hominin carcass processing strategies at 1.5Ma, Koobi Fora, Kenya

(2008) Briana L. Pobiner et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate

(2008) Martin H. Trauth et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS