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Cerling, T. E., 1992, Development of grasslands and savannas in East Africa during the Neogene: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 97, p. 241-247.
Cerling, T. E., Harris, J. M., and Leakey, M. G., 2003, Isotope paleoecology of the Nawata and Nachukui Formations at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya, in Leakey, M. G., and Harris, J. M., eds., Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa: New York, Columbia University Press, p. 605-614.
Cerling, T. E., Wynn, J. G., Andanje, S. A., Bird, M. I., Korir, D. K., Levin, N. E., Mace, W., Macharia, A. N., Quade, J., and Remien, C. H., 2011, Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years: Nature, v. 476, p. 51-56.
Haile-Selassie, Y., Saylor, B. Z., Deino, A., Levin, N. E., Alene, M., and Latimer, B. M., 2012, A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations. Nature v. 483, p. 565-569.
Kingston, J. D., 1992, Stable isotopic evidence for hominid paleoenvironments in East Africa [Ph.D. Dissertation thesis]: Harvard University.
Kingston, J. D., Fine Jacobs, B., Hill, A., and Deino, A. (2002) Stratigraphy, age and environments of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution, v. 42, p. 95-116.
Levin, N. E., Quade, J., Simpson, S. W., Semaw, S., and Rogers, M. J., 2004, Isotopic evidence for Plio-Pleistocene environmental change at Gona, Ethiopia: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 219, p. 93-110.
Levin, N. E., Simpson, S. W., Quade, J., Cerling, T. E., and Frost, S. R., 2008, Herbivore enamel carbon isotopic composition and the environmental context of Ardipithecus at Gona, Ethiopia, in Quade, J., and Wynn, J. G., eds., The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Boulder, Geological Society of America, p. 215-234.
Levin, N. E., Brown, F. H., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Bobe, R., and Cerling, T. E., 2011, Paleosol carbonates from the Omo Group: isotopic records of local and regional environmental change in East Africa: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 307, p. 75-89.
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Plummer, T., Bishop, L. C., Ditchfield, P., and Hicks, J., 1999, Research on Late Pliocene Oldowan sites at Kanjera South, Kenya: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 36, p. 151-170.
Plummer, T. W., Ditchfield, P. W., Bishop, L. C., Kingston, J. D., Ferraro, J. V., Braun, D. R., Hertel, F., and Potts, R., 2009, Oldest Evidence of Toolmaking Hominins in a Grassland-Dominated Ecosystem: PLoS ONE, v. 4, p. e7199.
Quade, J., Levin, N., Semaw, S., Stout, D., Renne, P. R., Rogers, M., and Simpson, S., 2004, Paleoenvironments of the earliest stone toolmakers, Gona, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 1529-1544.
Quinn, R. L., Lepre, C. J., Wright, J. D., and Feibel, C. S., 2007, Paleogeographic variations of pedogenic carbonate δ13C values from Koobi Fora, Kenya: implications for floral compositions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin environments: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 53, p. 560-573.
Semaw, S., Simpson, S. W., Quade, J., Renne, P. R., Butler, R. F., McIntosh, W. C., Levin, N., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., and Rogers, M. J., 2005, Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia: Nature, v. 433, p. 301-305.
Sikes, N. E., 1994, Early hominid habitat preferences in East Africa: Paleosol carbon isotopic evidence: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 27, p. 25-45.
Sikes, N. E., Potts, R., and Behrensmeyer, A. K., 1999, Early Pleistocene habitat in Member 1 Olorgesailie based on paleosol stable isotopes: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 37, p. 721-746.
Sikes, N. E., and Ashley, G. M., 2007, Stable isotopes of pedogenic carbonates as indicators of paleoecology in the Plio-Pleistocene (upper Bed I), western margin of the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 53, p. 574-594.
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White, T. D., WoldeGabriel, G., Asfaw, B., Ambrose, S., Beyene, Y., Bernor, R. L., Boisserie, J.-R., Currie, B., Gilbert, H., Haile-Selassie, Y., Hart, W. K., Hlusko, L. J., Howell, F. C., Kono, R. T., Lehmann, T., Louchart, A., Lovejoy, C. O., Renne, P. R., Saegusa, H., Vrba, E. S., Wesselman, H., and Suwa, G., 2006, Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus: Nature, v. 440, p. 883-889.
WoldeGabriel, G., White, T. D., Suwa, G., Renne, P., de Heinzelin, J., Hart, W. K., and Heiken, G., 1994, Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia: Nature, v. 371, p. 330-333.
WoldeGabriel, G., Haile-Selassie, Y., Renne, P. R., Hart, W. K., Ambrose, S. H., Asfaw, B., Heiken, G., and White, T., 2001, Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia: Nature, v. 412, p. 175-178.
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Wynn, J. G., 2000, Paleosols, stable carbon isotopes, and paleoenvironmental interpretation of Kanapoi, northern Kenya: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 39, p. 411-432.
Wynn, J. G., 2004, Influence of Plio-Pleistocene aridification on human evolution: evidence from paleosols of the Turkana Basin, Kenya: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, v. 123, p. 106-118.
Wynn, J. G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., and Roman, D. C., 2006, Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia: Nature, v. 443, p. 332-336.
Yellen, J., Brooks, A., Helgren, D., Tappen, M., Ambrose, S. H., Bonfille, R., Feathers, J., Goodfriend, G., Ludwig, K., Renne, P., and Stewart, K., 2005, The Archaeology of Aduma Middle Stone Age Sites in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia: Paleoanthropology, v. 10, p. 25-100.