DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.032
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85048485798
论文题名: Humans preserve non-human primate pattern of climatic adaptation
作者: Buck L.T. ; De Groote I. ; Hamada Y. ; Stock J.T.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 192 起始页码: 149
结束页码: 166
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Adaptation
; Cold-adaptation
; Colonisation
; Ecogeography
; Macaca fuscata
; Pleistocene
; Thermoregulation
; Variation
Scopus关键词: Musculoskeletal system
; Adaptation
; Cold-adaptation
; Colonisation
; Ecogeography
; Macaca fuscata
; Pleistocene
; Thermoregulation
; Variation
; Ecosystems
; Macaca
; Macaca fuscata
; Mammalia
; Primates
英文摘要: There is evidence for early Pleistocene Homo in northern Europe, a novel hominin habitat. Adaptations enabling this colonisation are intriguing given suggestions that Homo exhibits physiological and behavioural malleability associated with a ‘colonising niche’. Differences in body size/shape between conspecifics from different climates are well-known in mammals, could relatively flexible size/shape have been important to Homo adapting to cold habitats? If so, at what point did this evolutionary stragegy arise? To address these questions a base-line for adaptation to climate must be established by comparison with outgroups. We compare skeletons of Japanese macaques from four latitudes and find inter-group differences in postcranial and cranial size and shape. Very small body mass and cranial size in the Southern-most (island) population are most likely affected by insularity as well as ecogeographic scaling. Limb lengths and body breadths show group differences that accord with the expectations of thermoregulation across the whole range of latitudes. Postcranial size appears to vary more than shape, yet there is also evidence that limb segments follow Allen's rule in the forelimb at least, suggesting differing climatic signals in different regions of the skeleton. In contrast to other intraspecific studies of catarrhine ecogeography, the results presented here demonstrate non-allometric latitudinal patterns in craniofacial shape in Japanese macaques, which align closely with what is seen in cold-adapted humans. These insights begin to provide a comparison for hominin adaptation to similar habitat diversity and the role of biological adaptation in shaping the evolution and dispersal of Homo species. © 2018 The Authors Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112147
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作者单位: PAVE Research Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, United Kingdom; Human Origins Research Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom; School of Natural Science and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, United Kingdom; Primate Research Institute, University of Kyoto, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan; Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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Buck L.T.,De Groote I.,Hamada Y.,et al. Humans preserve non-human primate pattern of climatic adaptation[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,192