Cheverud J M, Buikstra J E
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1982 Oct;59(2):151-5. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330590205.
This study addresses the long-standing controversy in skeletal biology concerning the relative utility of skeletal metric and nonmetric traits for studies of biological relationship. This controversy centers on the relative heritability of these two trait sets. This paper presents heritabilities for a series of skeletal metric and nonmetric traits measured with the same sample of mother-offspring pairs from the Cayo Santiago skeletal collection of rhesus macaques. Skeletal nonmetric traits display significantly greater heritability estimates than metric traits. This difference is due primarily to the high heritability estimates of hyperostotic nonmetric traits. Foraminal traits are not significantly more heritable than skeletal metric traits. The generality of this pattern of heritability values, in which hyperostotic nonmetric traits are more highly heritable than foraminal nonmetric and metric traits, depends on future empirical study of the correlation of heritability values in populations and theoretical work.
本研究解决了骨骼生物学中长期存在的争议，即骨骼测量性状和非测量性状在生物学关系研究中的相对效用问题。这一争议集中在这两组性状的相对遗传力上。本文给出了对来自圣地亚哥岛恒河猴骨骼收藏中同一组母婴样本所测量的一系列骨骼测量性状和非测量性状的遗传力。骨骼非测量性状的遗传力估计值显著高于测量性状。这种差异主要是由于骨质增生性非测量性状的遗传力估计值较高。孔状性状的遗传力并不显著高于骨骼测量性状。这种遗传力值模式的普遍性，即骨质增生性非测量性状比孔状非测量性状和测量性状具有更高的遗传力，取决于未来对群体中遗传力值相关性的实证研究和理论工作。
