Origin Africa: a natural history

Preface

What is Africa?

Gondwana's core

Dawn and consequences from chance

Afloat on planet ocean (adrift and heading North)

Global wobbles and climate change

Habitats defined by plants

Emigration and immigration

Diversity

highs and lows

Succession

Diseases and plagues

Louder, softer, bigger, smaller, faster, slower, duller, brighter

Behaviour drives morphology

Ecological elders

Import and export of primates

Slow but smart

The boreal, latitudinal realm

The austral, longitudinal realm

Niche-thieves

Out of Africa and back again

the banda strandlopers

Translating nature

Mind and memory

Process as principle.