The occurrence of taxa such as Hippopotamus sp. in the assemblage provides evidence of early dispersal events of African taxa prior to the early Homo diffusion into Europe.
Our results indicate that climatic change is already having a detectable continent-wide effect at the level of a large species assemblage, including evidence of negative as well as positive effects (Text S3).
The abundance of evidence from this assemblage supports our emerging understanding that the genus Homo encompassed a variety of evolutionary experiments (Antón et al., 2014), with diversity now evident for fossil Homo in each of the few intensively explored parts of Africa (Leakey et al., 2012).
In contrast, we present three lines of evidence from a large assemblage of bacteria thermophiles in favor of streamlining.
The trial that followed would project Beryl Evans back into the public and forensic imagination; with her body this time reconceptualized as a valuable evidentiary resource in the assemblage of, and search for, trace evidence in the context of recent findings.
The Malapa hominin and faunal assemblages lack evidence of carnivore activity, and include a disproportionate fraction of climbing species, suggesting that access to the cave was formerly limited and possibly hazardous for ungulates (Val et al., 2015), but a broad array of faunal species have been recovered from the site.
This information needs to be properly contextualized to maximize its benefits and is best used alongside other sources of evidence such as faunal assemblages and written texts.
On the other hand, Hatori (1975) and Aida (1981) interpreted the same assemblages as evidence of the AD 1498 Meio earthquake (M 8.2 8.4) (Fig. 1).
He suggested that these assemblages provided evidence of coseismic uplift associated with the AD 1703 great Kanto (Genroku) earthquake (Fig. 1), although the ages of the assemblages were not obtained.
Nevertheless, biotic interactions have left their mark on species' distributions and realized assemblages of species, with effects evident across spatial scales, as supported by multiple lines of evidence.
