KMS Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS
Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts | |
Wu, Xiujie1,2; Schepartz, Lynne A.3; Norton, Christopher J.4 | |
2010 | |
发表期刊 | QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL |
ISSN | 1040-6182 |
卷号 | 211期号:1-2页码:4-13 |
摘要 | The six Zhoukoudian (ZKD) Locality 1 Homo erectus specimens derive from stratigraphic levels 11-3 with a geochronological span of approximately 0.3 Ma. This paper introduces the history of the ZKD endocasts and presents data on their morphological features and linear dimensions in order to evaluate variability in the sample over time and in the broader context of human brain evolution using a comparative sample of African and other Asian H. erectus fossils and modern Chinese males. The ZKD brains are very similar in their morphological characteristics, but there are also significant but subtle changes involving expansion of the frontal and occipital lobe breadths that correlate with the geochronology. The same is not true for general endocranial volume. The ZKD brains, together with other Asian and African H. erectus specimens, have low height dimensions and short parietal chords that distinguish them from the modern Chinese. Furthermore, the lack of geographical patterning in the fossil sample, as determined by Principal Components Analysis, provides no support for arguments advocating the splitting of H. erectus into separate taxa. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.07.002 |
语种 | 英语 |
关键词[WOS] | ENDOCRANIAL CAST ; U-SERIES ; PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL SITE ; CHINA ; ESR ; SINANTHROPUS ; INDONESIA ; EVOLUTION ; HOMINIDS ; HEXIAN |
资助项目 | Chinese Academy of Sciences[KZCX2-YW-106] ; MST of China[2007DFB20330] ; National Science Fund of China[40772018] ; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology[093109] |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000274277100002 |
项目资助者 | Chinese Academy of Sciences ; MST of China ; National Science Fund of China ; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology |
出版者 | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/409 |
专题 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
通讯作者 | Wu, Xiujie |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 3.Florida State Univ, Dept Anthropol, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA 4.Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Anthropol, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA |
第一作者单位 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
通讯作者单位 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu, Xiujie,Schepartz, Lynne A.,Norton, Christopher J.. Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2010,211(1-2):4-13. |
APA | Wu, Xiujie,Schepartz, Lynne A.,&Norton, Christopher J..(2010).Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,211(1-2),4-13. |
MLA | Wu, Xiujie,et al."Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 211.1-2(2010):4-13. |
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