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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
卷 150, 期 1, 页码 38-47出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22209
关键词
growth and development; life history; H. sapiens; Pleistocene Homo
资金
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant [BCS-0925861]
- New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science
- New York Consortium in Evolutionary Anthropology
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
Dental development and skeletal growth are central aspects used by anthropologists when investigating the ontogeny of a population or species. The interrelatedness of the two phenomena is often assumed to be high, but the nature of their relationship is obscured by the fact that they are both highly dependent upon chronological age. The exact relationship between the tempo of dental development and skeletal growth is unclear even in modern humans, which limits the ability to extrapolate to archaeological or fossil forms. It is clear that the influence of chronological age on these two aspects of ontogeny must be accounted for before examining their relationship to one another. This study tests whether dental development and skeletal growth are conditionally independent given age using known-age modern human skeletal samples and proportional odds logistic regression. The results suggest that dental development and skeletal growth are moderately correlated and thus not conditionally independent given age. That is, individuals that are dentally advanced relative to their peers also tend to be skeletally advanced. However, this relationship is moderate at best, so dental development does not appear to be a highly reliable proxy for skeletal growth, or vice versa, in modern humans. These findings have implications for the reconstruction of ontogeny and life history of fossil hominin taxa, since the pace of dental development is often used as a life history proxy. Implications of this study suggest that the proposed accelerated dental development in Pleistocene hominins was not necessarily accompanied by faster skeletal growth. Am J Phys Anthropol 150:38-47, 2013. (C)2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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