黑猩猩的上形态:囚禁与野生环境
Hester Hanegraef1, Fred Spoor1,2
1Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Journal of anatomy
|January 31, 2024
概括
与野生种群相比,被囚禁的黑猩猩表现出明显的上形态,具有更大,更不对称的头骨结构. 这些差异影响了人类进化研究中的比较研究,突出了排除养标本的必要性.
科学领域:
- 古人类学古人类学.
- 灵长类动物学 灵长类动物学
- 比较解剖学的比较解剖学
背景情况:
- 囚禁动物的骨质样本经常被排除在形态研究之外,因为它们被认为不代表性.
- 养殖环境,特别是饮食,可以显著影响头骨形态和牙健康.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究野生黑猩猩与被囚禁黑猩猩 (Pan troglodytes) 的尾的形态差异.
- 评估囚禁环境对人类进化研究相关的头骨形态的影响.
主要方法:
- 在 94 个野生和 30 个被关押的黑猩猩标本的计算机断层扫描上利用了三维几何形态测量.
- 分析了大骨的大小和形状的变化.
主要成果:
- 囚禁的黑猩猩比野生黑猩猩拥有更大和更不对称的部.
- 显著的形状差异仍然存在,即使在调整全米尺寸后也是如此.
- 在被囚禁组中观察到更高水平的形状变化.
结论:
- 大的形态在野生和被养殖的黑猩猩之间有很大的差异.
- 囚禁的黑猩猩上部不是野生种群的代表,因此应排除在分类学和形态学分析之外.
- 包括被囚禁的标本可以夸大物种间的差异,例如黑猩猩和红黑猩猩之间的差异.
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