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Global Patterns of Groundwater Table Depth
2013 StandoutScience
Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present
2001 StandoutScience
Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History
2008 Science
Responses of African bovids to Pliocene climatic change
2001
Y-chromosome E haplogroups: their distribution and implication to the origin of Afro-Asiatic languages and pastoralism
2014
Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch
2020
Mitochondrial lineage M1 traces an early human backflow to Africa
2007
New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages
2001 Nature
Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia
1994 Nature
Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China
2002 StandoutNature
The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity
2008
Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia
2003 Nature
The first skull and other new discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia
1994 Nature
Proboscidean Mitogenomics: Chronology and Mode of Elephant Evolution Using Mastodon as Outgroup
2007
A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea
1998 Nature
Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia
1994 Nature
Clavicles, scapulae and humeri from the Sima de los Huesos site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
1997
Understanding Ancient Hominin Dispersals Using Artefactual Data: A Phylogeographic Analysis of Acheulean Handaxes
2009
Origin and evolution of the genus Homo
1992 Nature
Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
2002
Interpreting the posture and locomotion ofAustralopithecus afarensis: Where do we stand?
2002
Ethiopian Mitochondrial DNA Heritage: Tracking Gene Flow Across and Around the Gate of Tears
2004
Environmental hypotheses of hominin evolution
1998
2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
2003
Morphology of Australopithecus anamensis from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya
2001
The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia
2010 StandoutNatureNobel
Tidal wetland stability in the face of human impacts and sea-level rise
2013 StandoutNature
A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos
2013 StandoutNatureNobel
Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo
1997 StandoutNature
Implications of early hominid labyrinthine morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion
1994 Nature
Fossil Homo femur from Berg Aukas, northern Namibia
1995
Nanoparticles functionalised with reversible molecular and supramolecular switches
2010 StandoutNobel
Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia
2001 Nature
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
2007 StandoutNature
The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908)
2012
The environmental contexts of early human occupation of Georgia (Transcaucasia)
2000
Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans
1997 StandoutNobel
Molecular Machines Working on Surfaces and at Interfaces
2007
New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya
1995 Nature
Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins
2016 StandoutNatureNobel
Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA
2009 StandoutNobel
New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
2017 StandoutNature
Body size and proportions in early hominids
1992
Body proportions of Homo habilis reviewed
2004
Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences
2011 StandoutNature
Middle Pleistocene human facial morphology in an evolutionary and developmental context
2012
Age of the Earliest Known Hominids in Java, Indonesia
1994 Science
Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens
2002
The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior
2000 Standout
2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia
1997 StandoutNature
Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution
2002
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
2012 StandoutNature
Endurance running and the evolution of Homo
2004 StandoutNature
The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations
2001 Standout
A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes
2008 StandoutScience
The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective
2000 StandoutScience
The origin of modern anatomy: By speciation or intraspecific evolution?
2008
Pliocene hominids from the Hadar formation, Ethiopia (1973–1977): Stratigraphic, chronologic, and paleoenvironmental contexts, with notes on hominid morphology and systematics
1982
Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa
2015 StandoutScience
The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change
2005 StandoutScience
Cranial variables as predictors of hominine body mass
1994
African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene
2004 Standout
Ages of tuff beds at East African early hominid sites and sediments in the Gulf of Aden
1985 Nature
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
2009 StandoutScience
Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic
1995 Standout
Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis
1999 StandoutNature
Morphological adaptation to climate in modern and fossil hominids
1994 Standout
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa
2002 StandoutScience
Physical and chemical evidence on the cause and source characteristics of flood basalt volcanism
1991
The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit
2019
Mantle heterogeneity in northeastern Africa: evidence from Nd isotopic compositions and hygromagmaphile element geochemistry of basaltic rocks from the Gulf of Tadjoura and southern Red Sea regions
1990
Depositional environments, archeological occurrences and hominids from Members E and F of the Shungura Formation (Omo basin, Ethiopia)
1987
Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
2008 StandoutScience
Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories
1998
Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain
2009 StandoutNobel
The Neandertal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany
2002 StandoutNobel
Heterochrony in human evolution: The case for neoteny reconsidered
1989
Human origins: Out of Africa
2009
Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution
2001 Science
A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa: The Question of the Fauresmith
2011
The Raw and the Stolen
1999
Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans
1997
An ecological theory for the origin ofHomo
1992
Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions
2003 StandoutScience
Where River Meets Sea
2007
A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans
1997 StandoutScience
The human cranium from Bodo, Ethiopia: evidence for speciation in the Middle Pleistocene?
1996
First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)
2001
Rapid wetland expansion during European settlement and its implication for marsh survival under modern sediment delivery rates
2011
Correlation of Pliocene and Pleistocene tephra layers between the Turkana Basin of East Africa and the Gulf of Aden
1992
Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels
2001 Standout
The first skull of Australopithecus boisei
1997 Nature
Tephrostratigraphy and geological context in paleoanthropology
1999
A reappraisal of the geomagnetic polarity time scale to 4 MA using data from the Turkana Basin, East Africa
1992
Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations
2018 StandoutScienceNobel
Climate and body shape in hominid evolution
1991
Lower Pleistocene Hominids and Artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)
1995 StandoutScience
Astronomic timescale for the Pliocene Atlantic δ18O and dust flux records of Ocean Drilling Program Site 659
1994
Early Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Konso, southern Ethiopia
2007
Broken Limits to Life Expectancy
2002 StandoutScience
Quaternary volcanic activity of the southern Red Sea: new data and assessment of models on magma sources and Afar plume-lithosphere interaction
1997
Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins
1996 StandoutScienceNobel
Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary
1997 StandoutNature
Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals
2015 StandoutNobel
Plio-Pleistocene African Climate
1995 StandoutScience
Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust
2007 Standout
Causes of perceived faunal change in the later Neogene of East Africa
1987
Defining the onset of the Anthropocene
2022 StandoutScience
Depositional context of Plio-Pleistocene hominid-bearing formations in the Middle Awash valley, southern Afar Rift, Ethiopia
1986
A Complex History for the Caribbean Plateau: Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Beata Ridge, South Hispaniola
2000
Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica
1999 StandoutNature
Palynology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of a pliocene hominid site (2.9-3.3 M.Y.) at Hadar, Ethiopia
1987
The Middle Stone Age of East Africa and the beginnings of regional identity
1988 Standout
Mantle geochemistry: the message from oceanic volcanism
1997 StandoutNature
A new geomagnetic polarity time scale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic
1992
Inactivation of CMP- N -acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase occurred prior to brain expansion during human evolution
2002 StandoutNobel
Cultural beginnings: Plio-Pleistocene archaeological occurrences from the Afar, Ethiopia
1983
Fire and its roles in early hominid lifeways
1985
Relative joint size and hominoid locomotor adaptations with implications for the evolution of hominid bipedalism
1988
Towards a theory of modern human origins: Geography, demography, and diversity in recent human evolution
1998
Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids
1999 Science
The Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations: Paradigms for a New Millennium
2001
Acid−Base Actuation of [c2]Daisy Chains
2009 StandoutNobel
Geological setting of Pliocene rifting and deposition in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia
1987
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
2004 StandoutScience
Magma genesis in an ongoing rifting zone: The Tadjoura Gulf (Afar area)
1993
Extending the astronomical (polarity) time scale into the Miocene
1995
Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution
2012 StandoutNobel
The Human Genus
1999 Science

Works of Robert C. Walter being referenced

Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water-Powered Mills
2008 Science
New discoveries of Australopithecus at Maka in Ethiopia
1993 Nature
Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial
2000 Nature
The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula
1992 Nature
Basaltic volcanism in Ethiopia: Constraints on continental rifting and mantle interactions
1989
Tephra sources and correlations in Ethiopia: Application of elemental and neodymium isotope data
1992
Palaeoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia
1984 Nature
Correlation of Tulu Bor Tuff at Koobi Fora with the Sidi Hakoma Tuff at Hadar
1983 Nature
African Homo erectus : Old Radiometric Ages and Young Oldowan Assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia
1994 Science
Age of Lucy and the First Family: Single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Denen Dora and lower Kada Hadar members of the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia
1994
Age and source of the Sidi Hakoma Tuff, Hadar Formation, Ethiopia
1993
Late PlioceneHomoand Oldowan Tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia
1996
Laser-fusion 40Ar/39Ar dating of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1991 Nature
Petrogenesis of a basalt-rhyolite tephra from the west-central Afar, Ethiopia
1987
A proboscidean from the late Oligocene of Eritrea, a “missing link” between early Elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha, and biogeographic implications
2006
Kesem-Kebena: A Newly Discovered Paleoanthropological Research Area in Ethiopia
1992
Geochronology, stratigraphy and geochemistry of Cindery Tuff in Pliocene hominid-bearing sediments of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia
1984 Nature
Revisions of K/Ar ages for the Hadar hominid site, Ethiopia
1982 Nature
The coastal oasis: ice age springs on emerged continental shelves
2002
Tephrochronology of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge: An application of laser-fusion dating to calibrating biological and climatic change
1992
New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1987 Nature
Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time
1994
Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea
2003
New geochronologic and palaeomagnetic data for the hominid-bearing Hadar Formation of Ethiopia
1977 Nature
New data from Hadar (Ethiopia) support orbitally tuned time scale to 3.3 MA
1993
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