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Climate Signatures in the Morphological Differentiation of Worldwide Modern Human Populations
Abstract
The ability of cranial morphology to reflect population/phylogenetic history, and the degree to which it might be influenced by environmental factors and selection pressures have been widely discussed. Recent consensus views cranial morphology as largely indicative of population history in humans, with some anatomical cranial regions/measurements being more informative on population history, while others being under selection pressure. We test earlier findings using the largest and most diverse cranial dataset available as yet: 7,423 male specimens from 135 geographic human population samples represented by 33 standard craniometric linear measurements. We calculated Mahalanobis D(2) for three datasets: complete cranial dataset; facial measurement dataset; and neurocranial measurement dataset; these morphological distance matrices were then compared to matrices of geographic distances as well as of several climatic variables. Additionally, we calculated Fst values for our cranial measurements and compared the results to the expected Fst values for neutral genetic loci. Our findings support the hypothesis that cranial, and especially neurocranial morphology, is phylogenetically informative, and that aspects of the face and cranium are subject to selection related to climatic factors. The Fst analysis suggest that selection to climate is largely restricted to groups living in extremely cold environments, including Northeast Asia, North America, and Northern Europe, though each of these regions appears to have arrived at their morphology through distinct adaptive pathways.
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“Several studies have used this approach and found that while most aspects of the skull seem to be evolving neutrally, the shape of the nasal aperture appears to be more differentiated across human populations than expected under genetic drift [9,12,13].”
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“In these studies, h2 was assumed to be 0.55 and c was implicitly assumed to be 1, resulting in c/h2 to be greater than 1.”
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“While our findings provide support for the idea that differences in aspects of nose shape may have evolved across populations as a result of climate-related selection pressures, something that has been demonstrated previously using craniometric data [2,12,13,41,42]”
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“While the modern human cranium, overall, appears to be mainly shaped by neutral evolutionary processes [80][81][82] , the modern human face reflects both phylogenetic and environmental factors [81][82][83][84]”
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“both the external nasal morphology and nasal cavity are related to temperature and humidity 80,82,85”
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“while facial morphology does carry a neutral genetic or population history signal, it is more strongly affected by climatic conditions than other parts of the cranium, especially in high latitude populations 81,82,83”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hubbe, M., Hanihara, T., & Harvati, K.
- Affiliations
- Kitasato University (JP)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Harvati, Katerina
- ORCID
- Harvati, Katerina
- Venue
- The Anatomical Record
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-08-28
- Volume
- 292
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1720-1733
- ISSN
- 1932-8486 (ISSN-L)
- 1932-8494
- OpenAlex
- W2105659362
- Cited by
- 217
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Anatomical Record (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Keywords
- skull morphology, facial morphology, climate change adaptation, natural selection, human population history, phylogenetic signal, craniometric measurements, Mahalanobis distance, FST, geographic distance, cold environment, adaptive evolution, human populations
- MeSH terms
- Acclimatization, Adaptation, Physiological, Anthropology, Physical, Anthropometry, Asia, Cephalometry, Climate, Cold Climate, Europe, Biological Evolution, Facial Bones, Fossils, Genetics, Population, Geography, Humans, Male, North America, Phenotype, Phylogeny, Population, Population Dynamics, Selection, Genetic, Skull, Genetic Variation
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