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Rodríguez Gómez, Guillermo 95ab8289-0777-45be-82f1-d93c127a48e1 600 Martín González, Jesús Ángel 925 600 Espigares, María Patrocinio 2056628d-fcbd-4378-8eb6-2c6ebe26a57d 600 Bermúdez de Castro, José María 3345250d-2098-48cb-a69e-e122da82e020 600 Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido e3b5ed0c-925e-434a-b946-6ef9b044b5cd 600 Arsuaga, Juan Luis 3a3b7577-21c0-4226-b827-f4f93c2d487c 600 Palmqvist, Paul b1235109-787f-4b55-aa86-9f76d0b3370f 600 2025-05-09T10:26:33Z 2025-05-09T10:26:33Z 2024-03 0277-3791 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10453 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108474 Reconstructing the conditions and circumstances under which the human lineage evolved is of great interest to those disciplines related to human evolution, especially in fields such as archaeoecology and human paleoecology. A mathematical model was presented almost a decade ago aimed to reconstructing the human populations that the Pleistocene paleoecosystems could support. This model followed a paleosynecological perspective, being focused on: (i) estimating the availability of meat resources in the paleoecosystems, as these resources are vital for human survival; and (ii) measuring the level of competition for these resources among the members of the carnivore guild, including hominins. The model has been applied since then to several Pleistocene localities of Europe, with particular emphasis on the Orce and Sierra de Atapuerca sites. In this study, we use the model for estimating predator-prey biomass ratios and compare the model outputs with the values measured in present-day African ecosystems. The results obtained confirm that our paleosynecological approach provides estimates of predator-prey biomass ratios that are broadly similar to those measured in the extant ecosystems. However, our estimates tend to be slightly higher than expected, which is probably due to the weight of species that satisfy part of their nutritional requirements with resources other than the meat from large herbivores. This allows us to assume that our model performs relatively well, although it has room for methodological improvements. Funding for this research has been provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (Refs.: CGL2016-78577-P, CGL2016-80975-P, PGC2018-093925-B-C31, PGC2018-093925-B-C33, PID2019-111185GB-I00, PID2021-122355NB-C31), Junta de Andalucía (Refs: UMA18-FEDERJA-188, P18-FR-3193), Generalitat de Catalunya (Ref.: 2021SGR 01238 (AGAUR)) and by research group RNM-146 of Junta de Andalucía. This research has been authorized by the Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalucía. G. Rodríguez-G´ omez enjoys a postdoctoral contract “Atracci´ on de Talento de la Comunidad de Madrid” (Ref. 2019-T2/HUM-13370) co-funded by the Comunidad de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This work has also been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid- Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with Universidad Complutense de Madrid in the line Research Incentive for Young PhDs, in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation) (Ref. 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