A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo

被引：276

作者：

Lordkipanidze, David ^{[1
]}

de Leon, Marcia S. Ponce ^{[2
]}

Margvelashvili, Ann ^{[1
,2
]}

Rak, Yoel ^{[3
]}

Rightmire, G. Philip ^{[4
]}

Vekua, Abesalom ^{[1
]}

Zollikofer, Christoph P. E. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Georgian Natl Museum, GE-0105 Tbilisi, Georgia

[2] Anthropol Inst & Museum, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

[3] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Anat & Anthropol, Sackler Fac Med, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[4] Harvard Univ, Dept Human Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2013年 / 342卷 / 6156期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY; ERECTUS; HOMINID; FOSSILS; REMAINS; DIVERSITY; SHAPE; SIZE;

D O I：

10.1126/science.1238484

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The site of Dmanisi, Georgia, has yielded an impressive sample of hominid cranial and postcranial remains, documenting the presence of Homo outside Africa around 1.8 million years ago. Here we report on a new cranium from Dmanisi (D4500) that, together with its mandible (D2600), represents the world's first completely preserved adult hominid skull from the early Pleistocene. D4500/D2600 combines a small braincase (546 cubic centimeters) with a large prognathic face and exhibits close morphological affinities with the earliest known Homo fossils from Africa. The Dmanisi sample, which now comprises five crania, provides direct evidence for wide morphological variation within and among early Homo paleodemes. This implies the existence of a single evolving lineage of early Homo, with phylogeographic continuity across continents.

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页码：326 / 331

页数：6

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