African Paleoecology and Human Evolution

Sally C. Reynolds is Principal Academic in Hominin Palaeoecology and Head of the Institute for Studies of Landscape and Human Evolution at Bournemouth University, UK. She has over 20 years of research experience in the study of African mammalian fauna, past environments and landscapes. She previously co-edited African Genesis: Perspectives on hominin evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012). René Bobe is Head Paleontologist with the Paleo-Primate Project at Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique, and a Research Affiliate at the Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. He has been studying early hominin paleoecology in eastern Africa for the past 30 years, with fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mozambique. His research focuses on fossil mammals that provide long-term records of ecological change.

'The libraries of paleontologists, geologists, and archeologists who work in Africa always have a few dog-eared volumes that reveal their repeated use, … African Paleoecology and Human Evolution will be one of those books, a constant companion to those seriously interested in studying hominin paleoecological contexts and understanding the drivers of human evolution.' William J. Sanders, The Quarterly Review of Biology

• Part I. Modern Africa and Overview Of Late Cenozoic Paleoenvironments; Part II. Southern Africa; Part III. Eastern and Central Africa; Part IV. Northern Africa.