During the course of the Neogene period, life on earth adapted to new ecological niches opened up by global cooling--and some mammals, birds, and reptiles evolved to truly impressive sizes in the process. The Neogene is the second period of theCenozoic Era(65 million years ago to the presen...
The Neogene covers about 20 million years. During this period, mammals and birds continued to evolve into roughly modern forms, while other groups of life remained relatively unchanged. Early hominids, the ancestors of humans, appeared in Africa. Some continental movement took place, the most sign...
The state of knowledge on the tectonic and geomorphological evolution of southern Africa during the post-Gondwana period is reviewed in the context of Alex du Toit9s fundamental contributions to these fields of geology. Basic to an understanding of post-rifting events are, firstly, the high elevat...
This population growth may have been triggered by climate change at the beginning of China’s ‘Penultimate Interglacial Period’ (c. 0.46–0.33 Ma) [119] and the intensification of the warm, wet summer monsoon in East Asia since the mid-late Pleistocene (c. 1.0–0.78 Ma) [120]. For ...