Paleoenvironmental Impacts on Human Evolution in China during the Quaternary
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全文截稿: 2024-06-30
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中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 地球科学 - 1区
• 小类 : 自然地理 - 2区
• 小类 : 地球科学综合 - 1区
Overview
Up until fairly recently, humans have been impacted tremendously by paleoenvironmental changes. Indeed, early hominin dispersals and distributions were at the whim of a constantly changing environment. Here, we present a series of papers that investigate this impact on Quaternary hominins, with a particular focus on China. Key questions we will be able to address are: 1) What types of paleoenvironmental barriers/corridors that hominins might have encountered were created in the region during different stages of the Quaternary? 2) May we be able to identify first and last appearance datums of early hominins and other non-human primates (e.g., Gigantopithecus, Pongo) in the region and link these data to changes in the paleoenvironment? 3) How do our changing views of the paleoenvironment and geochronology influence our views of human evolution in the region? 4) To what extent did these hominins survive in the region (e.g., continuity) or were there constant die-offs, followed by new arrivals of different hominin groups (e.g., replacements)? These questions are particularly pertinent now as the earliest arrival of hominins in eastern Asia currently dates back to close to the onset of the Quaternary, a time period that encompassed dozens of glacial/interglacial fluctuation cycles.
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Guest editors:
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Prof. Dr. Christopher J. Bae, PhD
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Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
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Prof. Dr. Wei Wang, PhDInstitute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Prof. Dr. Zhongping Lai, PhDInstitute of Marine Sciences, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster Prediction and Prevention, Shantou University, Shantou, China
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Manuscript submission information:
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