Daryl Codron

TL;DR: Variations in the isotopic compositions of plants collected over two years from the Kruger National Park, South Africa are document with respect to species and anatomical differences, and the influences of geological substrate and spatio-temporal shifts in climate are document.

TL;DR: The consumption of C4 foods is a fundamental hominin trait that, along with bipedalism, allowed australopiths to pioneer increasingly open and seasonal environments.

TL;DR: Traditional explanations for herbivore niche differentiation along a BM gradient should not be based on allometries of digestive physiology, and differences in the scaling of wet gut contents and dry matter gut contents confirm a previous finding that the dry matter concentration of gut contents decreases with body mass.

TL;DR: Cluster analysis based on a data matrix that incorporates the extent of spatio-temporal dietary variation among Kruger Park ungulates reveals several distinct categories of feeding preferences that extend beyond a two-edged browser/grazer dichotomy, such as mixed-feeders with a preference for either forage class, and spatial/seasonal shifts between uniform and mixed-feeding styles among variable browsers.

TL;DR: Investigation of landscape use in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus from the Sterkfontein and Swartkrans cave sites in South Africa uses strontium isotope analysis, a method that can help to identify the geological substrate on which an animal lived during tooth mineralization.