SOURON Antoine – INEE UMR 5199 – PACEA – Univ. Bordeaux –

Data gained from the systematics, phylogeny, ecology and biogeography of extant and fossil African mammals (Neogene and Quaternary) are applied to two research foci:

1) reconstructing the temporal, environmental, and biogeographic context of human evolution using contemporaneous suids, hippopotamids, and cercopithecids;

2) understanding how morphological adaptations evolve (interplays between morphology, diet, and environmental constraints) using the case-study of iterative herbivorous adaptations in African Neogene and Quaternary Suidae.