Evidence of different climatic adaptation strategies in humans and non-human primates
| Autor: | Laura T. Buck, Tsuyoshi Ito, I De Groote, Jay T. Stock, Brenna Hassett, Yuzuru Hamada |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Buck, LT [0000-0002-1768-9049], De Groote, I [0000-0002-9860-0180], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Buck, L. T. [0000-0002-1768-9049], De Groote, I. [0000-0002-9860-0180] |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Philosophy and Religion 123 Range (biology) Biological anthropology Acclimatization lcsh:Medicine Evolutionary ecology BODY PROPORTIONS MACAQUE Macaque MAXILLARY SINUS 0302 clinical medicine HOLOCENE 129 lcsh:Science Multidisciplinary 631/181/19/2471 GF 631/158/857 Human evolution GN FORM 141 CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY PLEISTOCENE Climatic adaptation Biology Article Intraspecific competition Evolution Molecular MIDFACIAL MORPHOLOGY 03 medical and health sciences QH301 POPULATION HISTORY biology.animal JOMON FORAGERS Animals Humans Ecological niche QL History and Archaeology lcsh:R Skull 15. Life on land Colonisation 030104 developmental biology 13. Climate action Evolutionary biology Macaca lcsh:Q Adaptation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | To understand human evolution it is critical to clarify which adaptations enabled our colonisation of novel ecological niches. For any species climate is a fundamental source of environmental stress during range expansion. Mammalian climatic adaptations include changes in size and shape reflected in skeletal dimensions and humans fit general primate ecogeographic patterns. It remains unclear however, whether there are also comparable amounts of adaptation in humans, which has implications for understanding the relative importance of biological/behavioural mechanisms in human evolution. We compare cranial variation between prehistoric human populations from throughout Japan and ecologically comparable groups of macaques. We compare amounts of intraspecific variation and covariation between cranial shape and ecological variables. Given equal rates and sufficient time for adaptation for both groups, human conservation of non-human primate adaptation should result in comparable variation and patterns of covariation in both species. In fact, we find similar amounts of intraspecific variation in both species, but no covariation between shape and climate in humans, contrasting with strong covariation in macaques. The lack of covariation in humans may suggest a disconnect in climatic adaptation strategies from other primates. We suggest this is due to the importance of human behavioural adaptations, which act as a buffer from climatic stress and were likely key to our evolutionary success. |
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