Exploring paleo food-webs in the European Early and Middle Pleistocene: A network analysis

The obtained results show that the Pleistocene food webs under study shared basic features with modern food webs, although differences in the values of some parameters might be significant. Moreover, when comparing the networks across periods, we found a marked change that could be related to the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution. Finally, our results also highlight the trophic position of hominins in the web as a central species that channeled energy fluxes.