Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings

J Tyler Faith^{1

2}, John Rowan³, Andrew Du⁴

Affiliations

¹ Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108; jfaith@nhmu.utah.edu.
² Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
³ Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
⁴ Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.

Comment

J Tyler Faith et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020.

. 2020 Feb 18;117(7):3370-3371.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920565117. Epub 2020 Feb 4.

J Tyler Faith^{1

2}, John Rowan³, Andrew Du⁴

¹ Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108; jfaith@nhmu.utah.edu.
² Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
³ Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
⁴ Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interest.

Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems.
Faith JT, Rowan J, Du A. Faith JT, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Oct 22;116(43):21478-21483. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909284116. Epub 2019 Oct 7. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31591246 Free PMC article.
Species richness and composition are not sufficient for determining the functionality of ancient ecosystems.
Weihmann T. Weihmann T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Feb 18;117(7):3368-3369. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920054117. Epub 2020 Feb 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020. PMID: 32019877 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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