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重新审视雷古尔杜 1 号尼安德特人的中胸骨。

The mesosternum of the Regourdou 1 Neandertal revisited.

机构信息

Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

出版信息

J Hum Evol. 2012 Apr;62(4):511-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.01.004. Epub 2012 Feb 28.

Abstract

Fossil hominin mesosterna, while scarce, can provide useful morphological data in addition to rib remains regarding aspects of thoracic size and shape. These data, in turn, can address hypotheses related to respiratory dynamics, climatic adaptation, and ecogeographical patterning. In this study, we re-evaluate the anatomical representation of the mesosternum of the Regourdou 1 Neandertal individual that alters key aspects of the original description of the fossil remains. We compare this specimen together with the mesosterna of the Kebara 2 Neandertal male individual and the Tabun C1 Neandertal female individual to a large extant modern sample. Our study shows that the current evidence available for Neandertals indicates longer mesosterna, reflecting larger thorax sizes among Neandertals, in comparison with extant humans. Additionally, while this study weakens previous suggestions of ecogeographically mediated differences in the size and shape of upper thorax between Neandertals from the Mediterranean Levant and those deriving from Western Europe, we cannot unambiguously disprove the notion of such clinal differences.

摘要

古人类中胸肋骨骼虽然稀少,但除了肋骨之外,还能提供有关胸肋大小和形状的有用形态数据。这些数据可以进一步验证与呼吸动力学、气候适应和生态地理模式相关的假说。在这项研究中,我们重新评估了雷古尔杜 1 号尼安德特人个体中中胸肋的解剖学表现,这改变了对化石遗骸原始描述的关键方面。我们将该标本与 Kebara 2 号尼安德特男性个体和 Tabun C1 号尼安德特女性个体的中胸肋进行了比较,并与大量现代样本进行了比较。我们的研究表明,目前可用于尼安德特人的证据表明,尼安德特人的中胸肋较长,反映出他们的胸廓比现代人更大。此外,虽然这项研究削弱了先前关于地中海黎凡特地区和西欧地区尼安德特人上胸部大小和形状存在生态地理介导差异的观点,但我们不能明确否定这种渐变差异的观点。

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