Bioinformatic approach to explain how Mg from seawater may be incorporated into coral skeletons by Tomoko Bell, Akira Iguchi, Yoshikazu Ohno, Kazuhiko Sakai, Yusuke Yokoyama

“…Mg transporter of Acropora digitifera, Acropora hyacinthus, Acropora millepora and Porites australiensis showed higher similarity to Mg transporter of vertebrates and were reported to appear on Earth during the Pleistocene. On the other hand, Acropora palmata, Acropora tenuis and Porites astreoides showed lower or no similarity to vertebrates, and they were reported to appear on Earth before the Pleistocene. …”
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La paléoprimatologie franco-japonaise : une longue coopération by Brigitte Senut

“…This collaboration has also permitted the initiation of other collaborative researches on the Palaeogene of Southern Africa and the study of fossil Cercopithecoids (Mio-Plio-Pleistocene) from Europe, Asia and Africa.…”
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Historical biogeography and systematics of yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata), with the description of a new subspecies from the Balkans by Christophe Dufresnes, Simeon Lukanov, Sven Gippner, Johanna Ambu, Ilias Strachinis, Dragan Arsovski, Benjamin Monod-Broca, Hugo Cayuela, Petros Lymberakis, Daniele Canestrelli, Dan Cogălniceanu, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Tomasz Suchan, Mathieu Denoël, Daniel Jablonski

“…As it reached the Dinarides during the Late Pleistocene, B. v. variegata potentially hybridized with B. v. scabra and captured its mitochondrial DNA, which resulted in a massive cyto-nuclear discordance across all northwestern European populations. …”
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A note on predator-prey dynamics in radiocarbon datasets by Marom, Nimrod, Wolkowski, Uri

“…We support our argument with examples from Pleistocene Beringia and the Holocene Judean Desert. …”
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Le renouveau de la « French connection » avec l’Afrique du Sud (1995-2015) by Brigitte Senut

“…Several fruitful projects were initiated especially in Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene palaeontology as evidenced by the results obtained in Namaqualand—discoveries of a Lower Miocene fauna at Bosluis Pan, of the first hominoid from subequatorial Africa and of Upper Miocene deposits in the Areb Hills—but also in the Cradle of Humankind. …”
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Identité biologique des artisans moustériens de Kebara (Mont Carmel, Israël) Réflexions sur le concept de néanderthalien au Levant méditerranéen by Anne-Marie Tillier, Baruch Arensburg, Jaroslav Brůžek

“…The southern Mediterranean Levant has attracted the attention of the scientific community since the early excavations conducted at the beginning of the 20th century on several sites, which provided a significant sample of Upper Pleistocene hominids. Additional skeletal material, circumscribed geographically and chronologically, raises several questions concerning the biological differences and similarities between the hominid samples represented, and their geographical position at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia. …”
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The Coral-Rich Devonian Limestones of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark by Malcolm Hart, Christopher Smart

“…Caves in these limestones provide an important record of both marine and terrestrial Pleistocene history, including some important hominin remains.…”
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HOABINHIAN IN VIETNAM AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES FROM 20,000 TO 7,000 YEARS BP by Khac Su Nguyen

“…The research results have identified a number of key economic characteristics of Hoa Binh cultural residents and evaluated the effectiveness of human methods of finding and gathering food under the fluctuations of the natural environment during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene in northern Vietnam. Little evidence directly related to cultivation and animal husbandry has been found at Hoa Binh cultural sites, so the issue of Hoa Binh agriculture is still a working hypothesis that needs to be studied further. …”
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Des vides et des pleins by Marie Seguedy, Stéphane Péan, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Zsolt Mester

“…Et pourtant, les dynamiques d’occupation au Pléistocène supérieur ne sont que partiellement connues. …”
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Butterfly Species Richness in Selected West Albertine Rift Forests by Patrice Kasangaki, Anne M. Akol, Gilbert Isabirye Basuta

“…The first cluster had forests characterized by relatively high altitude and low species richness despite the big area in the case of Rwenzori and being close to the supposed Pleistocene refugium. The second cluster had forests far away from the supposed refugium except Kisangi and moderate species richness with small areas, whereas the third cluster had those forests that were more disturbed, high species richness, and low altitudinal levels with big areas.…”
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Nature and Properties of Lateritic Soils Derived from Different Parent Materials in Taiwan by Tzu-Hsing Ko

“…Five lateritic soils derived from various parent materials in Taiwan, including andesite, diluvium, shale stone, basalt, and Pleistocene deposit, were collected from the Bt1 level of soil samples. …”
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Species diversity and composition of small mammal communities in Goteniška gora (S Slovenia) by Teo Delić, Roman Luštrik, Franc Kljun, Hubert Potočnik

“…Some representatives of Alpine small mammal communities and a Pleistocene relict were also present. …”
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Human-environment interaction during the Holocene in Eastern South America: Rapid climate changes and population dynamics. by Astolfo G M Araujo, Letícia Cristina Correa, Glauco Constantino Perez, Enrico Dalmas Di Gregorio, Mercedes Okumura

“…Our present analysis aims to present a broader picture of the relations between humans and the environment in Eastern South America since the Late Pleistocene. The obtained results suggest that the extent of the areas that were somewhat depopulated during the mid-Holocene is larger than previously thought; not only Central Brazil, but parts of the Amazon and the Pantanal (close to the Bolivian border) seem to show the same pattern. …”
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DEGRADACIÓN DE TIERRAS Y TELEDETECCIÓN EN PLANICIES PRÓXIMAS A LA LOCALIDAD DE CENTENARIO, PROVINCIA DE NEUQUÉN by Luis Bertani, Oscar Peña

“…The study area comprises the old river terraces of Neuquén River, from a Pleistocene age, which have a sandy mantle that covers them, which usually constitutes the horizon where the soils that allow the development of a xeric vegetation, typical of the arid environments, in the eastern part of the Neuquén Province. …”
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Mandible and teeth characterization of the Gravettian child from Gargas, France by Mona Le Luyer, Sébastien Villotte, Priscilla Bayle, Sélim Natahi, Adrien Thibeault, Bruno Dutailly, Carole Vercoutère, Catherine Ferrier, Christina San Juan-Foucher, Pascal Foucher

“…Here we examine the immature mandible from Gargas (France, ca. 29,000 cal BP), which displays a modern morphology overall with some archaic features rarely seen, if at all, in European Pleistocene and Holocene modern humans. In particular, the Gargas child has a very broad mandible, large tooth crowns with extreme deciduous and permanent mesiodistal molar diameters and a deciduous first molar with a quantity of enamel never previously reported. …”
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Revisiting the History and Biogeography of <i>Bactrocera oleae</i> and Other Olive-Feeding Fruit Flies in Africa and Asia by Luis Teixeira da Costa, Marie-Claude Bon, Barbara van Asch

“…Our data suggest that (1) the transition from stenophagy on Oleaceae to oligophagy on <i>Olea</i> most likely occurred in Africa more than 6 million years ago (MYA), and (2) the subsequent transition to monophagy on <i>Olea europaea</i> took place in Asia or in Africa in the Early Pleistocene. Our results support equally the hypotheses that the ancestors of modern <i>B. oleae</i> underwent two waves of migration from Asia to Africa or that they zigzagged between Asia and Africa.…”
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Evolutionary Relationship between Two Firefly Species, Curtos costipennis and C. okinawanus (Coleoptera, Lampyridae), in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan Revealed by the Mitochondrial a... by Masahiko Muraji, Norio Arakaki, Shigeo Tanizaki

“…The application of the molecular evolutionary clocks of coleopteran insects indicated that their vicariance occurred 1.0–1.4 million years ago, suggesting the influence of submergence and subdivision of a paleopeninsula extending between the Ryukyu Islands and continental China through Taiwan in the early Pleistocene.…”
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Les premiers représentants du genre Homo, en quête d’une identité. Apports de l’étude morphologique et de l’analyse cladistique by Sandrine Prat

“…A morphological study and numerical cladistic analyses on 122 morphological characteristics were carried out on the original Plio-Pleistocene specimens. The Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) is defined by the fossil specimen rather than the species in the absence of consensus concerning the taxonomic attribution of the fossil specimens studied. …”
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Archaeological research of three caves in the Tatra Mountains in 2019-2023 by Paweł Valde-Nowak, Katarzyna Kerneder-Gubała, Magda Kowal, Julia Kościuk-Załupka, Anna Kraszewska, Kamil Makuła, Jakub Skłucki

“…This discovery leads to the conclusion that during the Bölling warming of the Pleistocene, hunters operated in this cave, hunting goats and processed carcasses of hunted animals on site. …”
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Morphological Variation and Ecological Structure of Iroko (Milicia excelsa Welw. C.C. Berg) Populations across Different Biogeographical Zones in Benin by Christine Ouinsavi, Nestor Sokpon

“…Apart from strong climate oscillation during the Pleistocene, human caused habitat fragmentation through continuous land clearing for agriculture, extensive forests exploitation and urbanization induced the occurrence of many isolated forest plots and trees species among which Milicia excelsa trees. …”
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