fauna

This thesis examines the development of taxonomic zoology in India between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, coincident with British colonisation of the region. In so doing it draws into question conventional dyads of colonising and colonised nations, with the vec…

The name Metatheria refers to the clade that contains the extant marsupials and also all extinct mammals that are more closely related to extant marsupials than to the placental mammals. Metatherians first appear in the fossil record of Asia during the Early Cretaceous, with you…

From the beginning of permanent human settlements, domesticated plants and animals have been a driving force in social and economic development. A flurry of research surrounds the developmental stages of domesticates in the Neolithic and a huge library of publications encompass …

This thesis presents the vertebrate paleontology of the Early Pleistocene Daka Member, Middle Awash, Ethiopia, including its geological and chronological contexts. Focused work on the Daka Member began in 1981 under the guidance of Desmond Clark and Tim White, and intensified be…