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Gildas Merceron
Researcher at University of Poitiers
Publications - 100
Citations - 4147
Gildas Merceron is an academic researcher from University of Poitiers. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Late Miocene. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 84 publications receiving 3566 citations. Previous affiliations of Gildas Merceron include École normale supérieure de Lyon & University of Hamburg.
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A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa
Michel Brunet,Franck Guy,Franck Guy,David Pilbeam,Hassane Taïsso Mackaye,Andossa Likius,Andossa Likius,Djimdoumalbaye Ahounta,Alain Beauvilain,Cécile Blondel,Hervé Bocherens,Jean-Renaud Boisserie,Louis de Bonis,Yves Coppens,Jean Dejax,Christiane Denys,Philippe Duringer,Véra Eisenmann,Gongdibé Fanone,Pierre Fronty,Denis Geraads,Thomas Lehmann,Fabrice Lihoreau,Antoine Louchart,Adoum Mahamat,Gildas Merceron,Guy Mouchelin,Olga Otero,Pablo Pelaez Campomanes,Marcia S. Ponce de León,Jean-Claude Rage,Michel Sapanet,Mathieu Schuster,Jean Sudre,Pascal Tassy,Xavier Valentin,Patrick Vignaud,Laurent Viriot,Antoine Zazzo,Christoph P. E. Zollikofer +39 more
TL;DR: The discovery of six hominid specimens from Chad, central Africa, 2,500 km from the East African Rift Valley, suggest that the earliest members of the hominids clade were more widely distributed than has been thought, and that the divergence between the human and chimpanzee lineages was earlier than indicated by most molecular studies.
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mvmorph: an r package for fitting multivariate evolutionary models to morphometric data
TL;DR: New features provided by the mvmorph package include the possibility of fitting models with changes in the mode of evolution along the phylogeny, which will be particularly meaningful in comparative analyses that include extinct taxa, for example when testing changes in evolutionary mode associated with global biotic/abiotic events.
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Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa
TL;DR: Microwear texture analysis is a new, automated and repeatable approach that measures whole surfaces in three dimensions without observer error as mentioned in this paper, showing that ruminants have more anisotropic microwear surface textures, whereas browsers have more complex microwave surface textures.
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The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls
Gildas Merceron,Cécile Blondel,Michel Brunet,Sevket Sen,Nikos Solounias,Laurent Viriot,Emile Heintz +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used dental microwear data from artiodactyls from the Late Miocene of Afghanistan to infer the paleoenvironment of the artidactyl species.
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Can Dental Microwear Textures Record Inter-Individual Dietary Variations?
TL;DR: Microwear 3D scale-sensitive fractal analysis does detect differences in diet ranging from the inter-feeding styles scale to the intra-population between-season and between-sex scales and is therefore a possible tool in the further exploration of the feeding biology and ecology of extinct mammals.