Comptes Rendus Palevol
Articles in French and English, abstracts in both languages
This series (8 issues per year) is devoted to palaeontology, prehistory and evolutionary sciences. It covers the following domains: general, systematic, and human palaeontology, prehistory, evolution, history of sciences.
Articles are preferably written in English, with a French Abstract. Articles in French including an abridged English version, at least one page long, are accepted.
Publishing Director: Catherine Bréchignac
Impact factor: 1.043
5 year impact factor: 1.091
Imprint: Elsevier
ISSN: 1631-0683
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Mainland and insular Asia: Current debates about first settlements L'Asie continentale et insulaire : quelques points d?actualite sur les premiers peuplements
Volume 11, Issues 2-3,
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Perspectives on vertebrate evolution : topics and problems
Volume 10, Issues 5-6,
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La notion d'espece en paleontologie : ontogenese, variabilite, evolution
Volume 10, Issues 2-3,
Published March 2011
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Fri May 171 Frédéric Marin | Gilles Luquet Molluscan shell proteins Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 6-7, October 2004, Pages 469-492 2 Denis Allemand | Christine Ferrier-Pagès | Paola Furla | Fanny Houlbrèque | Sandrine Puverel | Stéphanie Reynaud | Éric Tambutté | Sylvie Tambutté | Didier Zoccola Biomineralisation in reef-building corals: from molecular mechanisms to environmental control Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 6-7, October 2004, Pages 453-467 3 Yves Nys | Joël Gautron | Juan M. Garcia-Ruiz | Maxwell T. Hincke Avian eggshell mineralization: biochemical and functional characterization of matrix proteins Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 6-7, October 2004, Pages 549-562 4 Martin Pickford | Brigitte Senut | Dominique Gommery | Jacques Treil Bipedalism in Orrorin tugenensis revealed by its femora Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2002, Pages 191-203 5 Kevin Padian | Armand de Ricqlès L𢀙origine et l𢀙évolution des oiseaux : 35 années de progrès Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 2-3, March𢀓April 2009, Pages 257-280 6 David Pilbeam | Nathan Young Hominoid evolution: synthesizing disparate data Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 4, July 2004, Pages 305-321 7 Mary Higby Schweitzer | Recep Avci | Timothy Collier | Mark B. Goodwin Microscopic, chemical and molecular methods for examining fossil preservation Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 7, Issue 2-3, April 2008, Pages 159-184 8 John A.J. Gowlett The early settlement of northern Europe: Fire history in the context of climate change and the social brain Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 5, Issue 1-2, January𢀓February 2006, Pages 299-310 9 Colin Renfrew Inception of agriculture and rearing in the Middle East Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 5, Issue 1-2, January𢀓February 2006, Pages 395-404 10 John R. Hutchinson The evolution of locomotion in archosaurs Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 5, Issue 3-4, March𢀓April 2006, Pages 519-530 - View all items
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Fri May 171 Giulio Pavia | Aldo Defaveri | Lionel Maerten | Marco Pavia | Marta Zunino Ammonite taphonomy and stratigraphy of the Bajocian at Maizet, south of Caen (Calvados, NW France) Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 7 May 2013 2 Danièle Gaspard X-ray computed tomography: A promising tool to investigate the brachiopod shell interior. Effects on 3D modelling and taxonomy Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 19 April 2013 3 Antonio Hernandez-Lopez | Didier Raoult | Pierre Pontarotti Birds perching on bushes: Networks to visualize conflicting phylogenetic signals during early avian radiation Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 18 April 2013 4 Chen-yang Cai | Margaret K. Thayer | Di-ying Huang | Xiang-dong Wang | Alfred F. Newton A basal oxyteline rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China: Oldest record for the tribe Euphaniini Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 10 April 2013 5 Marco Cherin | Dawid A. Iurino | Raffaele Sardella Earliest occurrence of Puma pardoides (Owen, 1846) (Carnivora, Felidae) at the Plio/Pleistocene transition in western Europe: New evidence from the Middle Villafranchian assemblage of Montopoli, Italy Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 13 March 2013 6 Michel Laurin | Hans-Dieter Sues Robert R. Reisz 𢀓 Renaissance paleontologist Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 1 March 2013 7 Heather F. Smith | William Parker | Sanet H. Kotzé | Michel Laurin Multiple independent appearances of the cecal appendix in mammalian evolution and an investigation of related ecological and anatomical factors Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 7 February 2013 8 Marie Orange | Tristan Carter | François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec Sourcing obsidian from Tell Aswad and Qdeir 1 (Syria) by SEM-EDS and EDXRF: Methodological implications Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 1 February 2013 9 Josep M. Robles | Joan Madurell-Malapeira | Juan Abella | Cheyenn Rotgers | Raül Carmona | Sergio Almécija | Jordi Balaguer | David M. Alba New Pseudaelurus and Styriofelis remains (Carnivora: Felidae) from the Middle Miocene of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin) Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 101-113 10 Valery Zeitoun | Prasit Auetrakulvit | Hubert Forestier | Antoine Zazzo | Gourgen Davtian | Supaporn Nakbunlung | Chaturaporn Tiamtinkrit Discovery of a Mesolithic burial near the painted rock-shelter of Ban Tha Si (Lampang province, Northern Thailand): Implications for regional mortuary practices Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 127-136 - View all items
