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Comentario sobre "El patrón de crecimiento de los neandertales, reconstruido a partir de un esqueleto juvenil de El

Jeremy M DeSilva¹

¹Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|March 29, 2018

Resumen

Las estimaciones del tamaño del cerebro de los neandertales pueden ser sobreestimadas. El Sidrón J1

Área de la Ciencia:

Paleoantropología
Paleoneurología

Sus antecedentes:

Estudios previos estimaron el tamaño del cerebro de El Sidrón J1 en el 87,5% de la capacidad de un adulto.
Esta estimación se basó en datos sobre el tamaño del cerebro de los neandertales potencialmente sobreestimados.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para reevaluar el tamaño del cerebro de El Sidrón J1.
Para evaluar la exactitud de las estimaciones anteriores del tamaño del cerebro de los neandertales.

Principales métodos:

Análisis comparativo de los datos fósiles de El Sidrón J1.
Comparaciones en pares con una muestra más grande de tamaños de cerebro fósil de Neandertal.

Principales resultados:

El tamaño del cerebro de El Sidrón J1 fue probablemente subestimado en estudios anteriores.
La reevaluación sugiere que el cerebro de El Sidrón J1 alcanzó un tamaño comparable al de otros neandertales.
Es poco probable que el cerebro de El Sidrón J1 haya crecido considerablemente según los datos actuales.

Conclusiones:

Las estimaciones del tamaño del cerebro de los neandertales requieren una cuidadosa consideración del tamaño de la muestra y las posibles sobreestimaciones.
La trayectoria de desarrollo de El Sidrón J1 puede alinearse más estrechamente con otros individuos neandertales.

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