C₄ plant food loss probably influenced Paranthropus boisei's extinction: A reply to Patterson et al.'s commentary on Quinn and Lepre (2021)

J Hum Evol. 2022 Dec:173:103269. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103269. Epub 2022 Oct 19.

Authors

Rhonda L Quinn¹, Christopher J Lepre²

Affiliations

¹ School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43402, USA. Electronic address: rlquinn@bgsu.edu.
² School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43402, USA.

PMID: 36270813
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103269

No abstract available

Keywords: East African Rift System; Mid-Pleistocene Transition; Paranthropus boisei; Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic analysis; Woody cover.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Fossils
Hominidae*