A New Brain Endocast of Homo erectus From Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China

doi:10.1002/ajpa.21527

	A New Brain Endocast of Homo erectus From Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China
	Wu, Xiujie 1,2; Holloway, Ralph L.3; Schepartz, Lynne A.4; Xing, Song 1,5
	2011-07-01
发表期刊	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ISSN	0002-9483
卷号	145 期号:3 页码:452-460
摘要	A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Tangshan, Nanjing is described and compared with a broad sample of endocasts of H. erectus, Neanderthals, and recent modern humans. The Nanjing 1 endocast is reconstructed based on two portions of endocranial casts taken from the original fossil fragments. The fossil was discovered in 1993, near Nanjing, South China and is dated to similar to 0.58-0.62 Ma. The cranial capacity is similar to 876 cc, as determined by endocast water displacement. There are some common features of Nanjing 1 and other H. erectus endocasts that differentiate them from the Neanderthals and modern humans in our sample. These include small cranial capacity, low height dimensions, simple middle meningeal vessel patterns, a high degree of cerebral-over-cerebellar lobe overhang, elongated and quite separated cerebellar lobes, and a narrow, low, short and flat frontal region. Some features are found to vary among H. erectus, Neanderthals and modern humans, such as the lateral Sylvian fissure position and the venous sinus and petalial patterns. The Nanjing 1 endocast has unique, large, superior frontal convolutions, and strongly protruding Broca's caps. In contrast to other Chinese H. erectus from Hexian and Zhoukoudian, Nanjing 1 lacks strong posterior projection of the occipital lobes. Bivariate and principal component analyses indicate that the small volume and shape of Nanjing 1 is most similar to KNM-WT 15000, KNM-ER 3883, Sangiran 2 and Hexian, illustrating the combination of narrow, low, and short frontal lobes with wide posterior lobes. Am J Phys Anthropol 145: 452-460, 2011. (C) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
关键词	endocast Homo erectus Nanjing 1 brain evolution
DOI	10.1002/ajpa.21527
语种	英语
关键词[WOS]	PLEISTOCENE HUMAN CRANIUM ; ENDOCRANIAL CAST ; ASYMMETRIES ; EVOLUTION ; INDONESIA ; PALEONEUROLOGY ; HOMINIDS ; HEXIAN ; JAVA ; SITE
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[40972017] ; MST of China[2009DFB20580] ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology[093109] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA05130101]
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000291949700012
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; MST of China ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology ; Chinese Academy of Sciences
出版者	WILEY-BLACKWELL
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/443
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, Key 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.Columbia Univ, Dept Anthropol, New York, NY USA 4.Florida State Univ, Dept Anthropol, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
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,Holloway, Ralph L.,Schepartz, Lynne A.,et al. A New Brain Endocast of Homo erectus From Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China[J]. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,2011,145(3):452-460.
APA	Wu, Xiujie,Holloway, Ralph L.,Schepartz, Lynne A.,&Xing, Song.(2011).A New Brain Endocast of Homo erectus From Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China.AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,145(3),452-460.
MLA	Wu, Xiujie,et al."A New Brain Endocast of Homo erectus From Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China".AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 145.3(2011):452-460.