title: Reply to Evans and Bar-Oz et al.: Recovering ecological pattern and process in Ancient Egypt.
authors.affiliation: Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501; jdyeakel@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Justin D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Yeakel
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil;
authors.forename: Mathias M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Pires
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering and Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom; Max Planck Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, D-01187 Dresden, Germany;
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rudolf
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755; and.
authors.forename: Nathaniel J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-418X
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Dominy
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
authors.forename: Paul L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil;
authors.forename: Paulo R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Guimarães
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering and Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom; Max Planck Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, D-01187 Dresden, Germany;
authors.forename: Thilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056631:Colony Collapse / Q000266:history*; D017753:Ecosystem; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D010163:Paleontology