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. |
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. |
