Climate Change, Genetics or Human Choice: Why Were the Shells of Mankind's Earliest Ornament Larger in the Pleistocene Than in the Holocene?

Peter R. Teske; Isabelle Papadopoulos; Christopher D. McQuaid; Brent K. Newman; Nigel P. Barker

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000614

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Climate Change, Genetics or Human Choice: Why Were the Shells of Mankind's Earliest Ornament Larger in the Pleistocene Than in the Holocene?

Peter R. Teske ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: P.Teske@ru.ac.za

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Isabelle Papadopoulos,

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Christopher D. McQuaid,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Brent K. Newman,

Affiliation Coastal and Marine Pollution, Natural Resources and the Environment, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Congella, Durban, South Africa
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Nigel P. Barker

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Climate Change, Genetics or Human Choice: Why Were the Shells of Mankind's Earliest Ornament Larger in the Pleistocene Than in the Holocene?

Peter R. Teske,
Isabelle Papadopoulos,
Christopher D. McQuaid,
Brent K. Newman,
Nigel P. Barker

Published: July 18, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000614

About the Authors

Peter R. Teske

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: P.Teske@ru.ac.za

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Isabelle Papadopoulos

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Christopher D. McQuaid

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Brent K. Newman

Affiliation Coastal and Marine Pollution, Natural Resources and the Environment, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Congella, Durban, South Africa

Nigel P. Barker

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT. Performed the experiments: PT IP. Analyzed the data: PT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB PT IP CM BN. Wrote the paper: NB PT IP CM BN.

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