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List of works by J. Tyler Faith

A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

scientific article published in 2014

A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

scientific article

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

scientific article

Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications of an Extinct Late Pleistocene Impala from the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya

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Blue turns to grey - Palaeogenomic insights into the evolutionary history and extinction of the blue antelope ( Hippotragus leucophaeus )

Climate change and faunal turnover: testing the mechanics of the turnover-pulse hypothesis with South African fossil data

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

scientific article (publication date: 28 May 2013)

Determining the geochemical variability of fine-grained basalt sources/quarries for facilitating prehistoric interaction studies in Polynesia

Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa: correlations, chronology and a context for early modern humans

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Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities

scientific article published in 2022

Eland, buffalo, and wild pigs: were Middle Stone Age humans ineffective hunters?

scientific article published on 26 March 2008

Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Fossil evidence for seasonal calving and migration of extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) in southern Africa

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From quartz curvature to late Holocene mobility at Spring Cave, Western Cape, South Africa

Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions

scientific article

Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa

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Late Pleistocene artefacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya

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Late Pleistocene climate change, nutrient cycling, and the megafaunal extinctions in North America

scholarly article

Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in Southern Africa's Cape Floral Region

scientific article published in June 2012

Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa: response to comments by F. Thackeray, <i>Quaternary Research</i> 95, 154–156

scientific article published in 2020

New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya

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Palaeozoological insights into management options for a threatened mammal: southern Africa’s Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra)

scientific article published in 2011

Paleodietary change and its implications for aridity indices derived from δ 18 O of herbivore tooth enamel

scholarly article by J. Tyler Faith published in January 2018

Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa.

scientific article published on 13 April 2015

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

scientific article published in Science

Rapid Pleistocene desiccation and the future of Africa's Lake Victoria

scientific article published in January 2020

Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments Using Bulk Geochemistry of Paleosols from the Lake Victoria Region

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Reconstruction of a semi-arid late Pleistocene paleocatena from the Lake Victoria region, Kenya

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Recurrent spring‐fed rivers in a Middle to Late Pleistocene semi‐arid grassland: Implications for environments of early humans in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Regional diversity patterns in African bovids, hyaenids, and felids during the past 3 million years: the role of taphonomic bias and implications for the evolution of Paranthropus

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Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul

scientific article (publication date: 3 September 2013)

Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores

scientific article published in 2022

Size variation in Tachyoryctes splendens (East African mole-rat) and its implications for late Quaternary temperature change in equatorial East Africa

scholarly article

Skeletal element abundances in archaeofaunal assemblages: economic utility, sample size, and assessment of carcass transport strategies

Stable isotope paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya.

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals

scholarly article

Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article

Taxonomic status and paleoecology of Rusingoryx atopocranion (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), an extinct Pleistocene bovid from Rusinga Island, Kenya

scholarly article by J. Tyler Faith et al published May 2011 in Quaternary Research

The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin

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The fossil history of Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa

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The measurement of taxonomic evenness in zooarchaeology

scientific article published on 21 January 2017

The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation

scientific article

The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis

scholarly article by Thomas Sutikna published in November 2018

The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to<i>Homo sapiens</i>

scientific article published in 2020

Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs

Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs.

scientific article

Ungulate biogeography, statistical methods, and the proficiency of Middle Stone Age hunters.

scientific article published on 22 January 2011

Variability in the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa

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We need to critically evaluate our assumptions: Reply to Blumenthal et al. (2018)

scholarly article by J. Tyler Faith published in October 2018