the alliance “is beginning to do that.”

Turkey, a NATO member, is being especially hard pressed by Russia military movements in the Black Sea and the spillover effects of the civil war in Syria.

In the future, Breedlove said NATO with its military skills and the EU with its expertise in judicial and police training and humanitarian assistance need to find ways to work more effectively together in North Africa, the Levant and Syria to reduce tensions there and improve living conditions and economic opportunity.

Breedlove compared working within the alliance to having 28 different cooks making soup, each with their sense of what was needed. “All freely express their ideas as the soup is being made,” but in the end it “is good and nourishing.”Carbon isotopic record of terrestrial ecosystems spanning the Late Miocene extinction of Oreopithecus bambolii, Baccinello Basin (Tuscany, Italy).
Oreopithecus bambolii is a Late Miocene hominoid with an extensive fossil record in the Baccinello Basin (Tuscany, Italy), and was the only western European hominoid to survive a major extinction event ca. 9.6 Ma (millions of years ago). Oreopithecus lived in the insular Tusco-Sardinian paleobioprovince, where it evolved many unique anatomical specializations that make it important for understanding the mechanisms and history of Late Miocene hominoid evolution. The eventual extinction of Oreopithecus and its associated fauna ca. 6.5 Ma has generally been attributed to interaction with species that arrived from continental Europe following tectonic collision of the Tusco-Sardinian province with mainland Italy, but palynological, paleontological, and sedimentological records indicate an environmental