Just Michael G, Nichols Lauren M, Dunn Robert R
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
R Soc Open Sci. 2019 Mar 20;6(3):180695. doi: 10.1098/rsos.180695. eCollection 2019 Mar.
Human engineering of the outdoors led to the development of the indoor niche, including home construction. However, it is unlikely that domicile construction mechanics are under direct selection for humans. Nonetheless, our preferences within indoor environments are, or once were, consequential to our fitness. The research of human homes does not usually consider human evolution, and, therefore, we are without previous predictions about indoor climate preference. We worked with citizen scientists to collect indoor climate data from homes ( = 37) across the USA. We then compared these data to recent global terrestrial climate data (0.5° grid cells, = 67 420) using a climate dissimilarity index. We also compared some climate-related physiological parameters (e.g. thermoneutral zone (TNZ)) between humans and a selection of non-human primates. On average, our study homes were most similar in climate to the outdoor conditions of west central Kenya. We found that the indoor climates of our study homes largely matched the TNZ of humans and other primates. Overall, we identified the geographical distribution of the global outdoor climate that is most similar to the interiors of our study homes and summarized study home indoor climate preferences.
户外的人类工程学促使了室内生态位的发展，包括房屋建设。然而，房屋建造机制不太可能受到人类的直接选择。尽管如此，我们在室内环境中的偏好现在或曾经对我们的健康状况产生影响。对人类住所的研究通常不考虑人类进化，因此，我们之前没有关于室内气候偏好的预测。我们与公民科学家合作，从美国各地的37个家庭收集室内气候数据。然后，我们使用气候差异指数将这些数据与最近的全球陆地气候数据（0.5°网格单元，共67420个）进行比较。我们还比较了人类与一些非人类灵长类动物之间的一些与气候相关的生理参数（例如热中性区（TNZ））。平均而言，我们研究中的家庭在气候上与肯尼亚中西部的户外条件最为相似。我们发现，我们研究中的家庭室内气候在很大程度上与人类和其他灵长类动物的热中性区相匹配。总体而言，我们确定了与我们研究中的家庭内部最相似的全球户外气候的地理分布，并总结了研究家庭的室内气候偏好。
