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MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
1. Jablonski, N.G. (2004) The hippo’s
tale: How the anatomy, physiology and dietary preference of
Late Neogene Hexaprotodon shed light on Late Neogene environmental
change. Quat. Int. 117:119-124.
2. Rutter, N., Jablonski, N.G., Ferguson,
D.F., and Yim, W.Y.S., Eds., (2004) CEAPE: 5th International
Conference on the Cenozoic Evolution of the Asia-Pacific Environment.
Quat. Int., volume 117.
3. Jablonski, N.G., Ji, X.-P., Chaplin, G.,
Wang, L.-R., Yang, S.-Y., Li, Z.-C., and Li, G.-H. (2003)
A Preliminary report on new and previously known vertebrate
paleontological sites in Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province,
China. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 54:209-224.
4. Jablonski, N.G. and Whitfort, M. J. (1999)
Environmental change during the Quaternary in East Asia and
its consequences for mammals. Records of the Western Australian
Museum, Supplement No. 57, pp. 307-315.
5. Jablonski, N.G. (1998) The response of
catarrhine primates to Pleistocene environmental fluctuations
in East Asia. Primates 39:29-37.
6. Jablonski, N.G. (1997) The relevance of
environmental change and primate life histories to the problem
of hominid evolution in east Asia. In: Jablonski, N.G. (ed.)
The Changing Face of East Asia During the Tertiary and
Quaternary. Hong Kong, Centre of Asian Studies (The University
of Hong Kong), Occasional Papers and Monograph No. 124, pp.
462-475.
7. Jablonski, N.G., ed. (1997) The Changing
Face of East Asia Since the Mid-Tertiary. Hong Kong,
Centre of Asian Studies (The University of Hong Kong), Occasional
Papers and Monograph No. 124.
8. Jablonski, N.G. (1993) Quaternary environments
and the evolution of primates in Eurasia, with notes on two
new specimens of fossil Cercopithecidae from China. Fol. Primatol.
60:118-132.
9. Jablonski, N.G. (1993) Evolving Landscapes
and Evolving Biotas of East Asia Since the Mid-Tertiary. Proceedings
of the Third International Conference on the Evolution of
the East Asian Environment, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian
Studies, 236 pp.
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KEY PUBLICATION
JABLONSKI, NINA G., MATTHEW J. WHITFORT, NOLA ROBERTS-SMITH
AND XU QINQI. 2002. The influence of life history and diet on
the distribution of catarrhine primates during the Pleistocene
in eastern Asia. Journal of Human Evolution 39(2):131-157.
ABSTRACT
Environmental changes during the Pleistocene in eastern Asia
had profound impacts on the distributions of mammalian groups.
Critical for many mammals were the southward latitudinal shifts
of the tropical and subtropical vegetational zones, and decreases
in the areas of these zones. Examination of the responses of
members of a single clade, the Catarrhini, indicates that the
main catarrhine genera of eastern Asia responded individually
to the environmental changes in the Pleistocene. These responses
were influenced by the life history parameters and diets of
the genera involved. Those animals (macaques, langurs) with
shorter gestation times, shorter weaning periods, shorter interbirth
intervals, higher intrinsic rates of increase of population,
and abilities to survive on a wider variety of vegetation in
seasonal habitats were less adversely affected than those (gibbons,
orangutans and the giant extinct hominoid, Gigantopithecus)
with more protracted reproductive schedules, lower intrinsic
rates of population increase and preferences for the higher
quality foods (especially ripe fruits) of less seasonal environments.
Hominids, while displaying "hyper-ape" life history
parameters, increasingly overcame the constraints of these parameters
through extrasomatic means not available to other catarrhines.
This ability made possible their colonization, by the Late Pleistocene,
of highly seasonal habitats such as tundra, which were off-limits
to non-culture-bearing catarrhines.
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