Chapter 1 Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene

Chapter 2 Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution

Chapter 3 African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change

Chapter 4 Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa

Chapter 5 Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits

Chapter 6 Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia

Chapter 7 Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments

Chapter 8 The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery

Chapter 9 Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments

Chapter 10 Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania

Chapter 12 Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi

Chapter 13 Finale and future