Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin fossils have also been reported from Mongolia and Korea (Norton, 2000; Coppens et al., 2008). 15–20. 2007). Ultimately, H. daliensis and H. mabaensis represent the same exact hominin fossils currently allocated to eastern Asian archaic H. sapiens, which begs the question: Does the designation of specific names in this case really represent more “exact” precision? One prominent example of this dependence on climate comes from mtDNA intramatch distributions that show rapid population growth in Africa at ca. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal Middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’. Cladistics organizes “things (be they species, populations, or artifacts) into a hierarchical pattern that reflects closeness of relationship based on the attributes (e.g., genes or morphology) exhibited by the individuals within those groups” (Lycett, 2007, p. 543–544). Evolution of Middle-Late Pleistocene human cranio-facial morphology: a 3-D approach. Cenozoic climate change in eastern Asia: Part II. Journal of Human Evolution 62:7–58. (2011); dust-flux data after Donges et al. The results showed that the most probable scenario (isolation and drift in the western and eastern populations of Neanderthals at 48 ka) would have involved an effective population size (Ne) of western Neanderthals of only 300 females, a marked reduction from the estimate for the eastern subpopulation ( females). Artist's reconstruction of a savannah in Middle Pleistocene Southeast Asia. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. 2012; Scholz et al. Date of population divergence between Neandertals and modern humans. Morphometric analysis of the Middle Pleistocene Tangshan, Huludong H. erectus crania (Liu et al., 2005), which is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province (central‐east China), right along the Palearctic/Oriental boundary suggests this may be the case (see also Anton, 2002). Powell, Adam, Stephen Shennan, and Mark G. Thomas. A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual. Interestingly, warm, humid‐adapted faunal elements (e.g., Bubalus) were present, in association with taxa usually found in cooler, more forested environments (e.g., Palaeoloxodon). Periods of high dust flux correspond to less precipitation, less vegetation, fewer people, and thus rapid genetic drift. The dust-flux record from the Arabian Sea, ODP 721/722, therefore records both of these influences. 2012. Fortunately, the recent studies by Roseman, Weaver, and colleagues (e.g., Roseman, 2004; Roseman and Weaver, 2004; Harvati and Weaver, 2006a, b; Weaver et al., 2007, 2008; Weaver and Roseman, 2008) that examine the relationship between cranial morphology and neutral genetic variation have begun to shed light on the subject (see also recent studies by Betti et al., 2009, 2010; Smith, 2009; von Cramon‐Taubadel, 2009a, b). (2012) synthesized paleoclimatic records for the whole of Africa using multiple proxies, including terrestrial, lacustrine, and oceanic data (fig. Evolutionary Anthropology 17:22–37. Indeed, Lieberman (2008, p. 56) observes that “[s]kulls are complex, strongly integrated structures characterized by high levels of covariation among multiple structures, even in different regions such as the face, basicranium, and neurocranium.” A well‐known example of this is the long‐term influence on cranial morphology of a diet that relies more heavily on meat and cooked foods (including meat) (Aiello and Wheeler, 1995; Wrangham et al., 1999). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99:1134–1139. Current Anthropology 33:551–586. 2011). Interestingly, Palaeoloxodon namadicus, a taxon usually found in higher latitudes was identified in the Maba faunal assemblage. The Middle Pleistocene fossils from Sima de los Huesos (SH) are relevant for the question of when and where the ancestral populations of Neanderthals and Denisovans lived, but their relationship to these later archaic groups is unclear. The Assimilation Model of modern human origins in light of current genetic and genomic knowledge. 14.5 ka (Williams et al. Journal of Human Evolution 55:421–437. Furthermore, all Neanderthal mtDNAs share a common ancestor approximately 100 ka and a common ancestor with modern humans ∼500 ka (Reich et al. Inferred population size changes in the history of Denisovans. Periods of large-scale glacial advance in Europe should produce periods of stress and low population numbers and rapid genetic drift in Neanderthals. During the same months the southerly Shamai winds scour dust off of the Arabian Peninsula and deposit it in the Arabian Sea. Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China. Scholz, C. A., A. S. Cohen, T. C. Johnson, J. (Image by LIU Wu) Although a relatively large number of late Middle Pleistocene hominins have been found in East Asia, these fossils have not been consistently included in current debates about the origin of anatomically modern humans (AMHS), and little is known … Nature 423:747–752. High-resolution U-series dates from the Sima de los Huesos hominids yields kyrs: implications for the evolution of the early Neanderthal lineage. Li, Heng, and Richard Durbin. In Human roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. During December, January, and February, the direction of air circulation reverses over East Africa, and the Trade Winds blow air onshore over East Africa and across the Sahel and much of the Sahara from a northeasterly counterclockwise direction. The Glacial Maximum in tropical Africa: 22,000–12,000 BP. 1994); estimates of lake levels from Lakes Malawi and Tangyanika show a return of wet conditions at the same time (Burnett et al. Clive Gamble and Oolda Soffer, eds. Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Tongzi, southern China. Midsagittal elevation on the frontal squama, 3. Key anatomical differences between Neanderthals and modern humans include both the differential retention of primitive features in each lineage as well as new features (apomorphies) in each. Dated to 200 ka or older, this foot offers the earliest evidence for increased stability of the medial longitudinal arch, while retaining a number of primitive features apparently characteristic of robust premodern hominins, including lower arches and a less … I evaluate the arguments that 1) the late Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils from eastern Asia should be included within the H. heidelbergensis hypodigm, 2) whether a different taxonomic name might be more apropos, or 3) whether the archaic H. sapiens classification should continue to be used. Both populations diverged from a common ancestor around 350,000 years ago as gauged by both genetic differences (Green et al. 2007. 2011. The nature of the Early to Late Paleolithic transition in Korea: Current perspectives. The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans. In a review of 75 distinctive cranial, dental, and postcranial features of early modern humans and Neanderthals, Trinkaus (2006) concluded that only one quarter were unique to Neanderthals while twice that many were unique to modern humans, a finding that means that Neanderthal morphology had remained fairly primitive while early moderns were much more derived. 2007. Journal of Human Evolution 62:367–376. Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China. Likewise, by applying a population genetics model to expectations for (neutral) change in cranial dimensions, Weaver (2012) showed that crania that had dimensions that differed by one standard deviation from modern crania could be expected by around 165 ka, which corresponds reasonably well to when most researchers agree that modern (or nearly modern) humans appear in the East African fossil record. The upper M2 also displays an “irregular distribution of enamel thickness and the absence of a doubled crista transversa” (Demeter et al., 2005, p 397), thus the Homo rather than Pongo assignment. Jun et al. Demography and cultural innovation: a model and its implications for the emergence of modern human culture. Brown, Francis H., Ian McDougall, and John G. Fleagle. 2012); a vertically short face tucked beneath the frontal lobe (Lieberman 2011); retention of a canine fossa into adulthood; and the presence of a projecting chin on the mandible (Stringer 2002, 2007). The mandibular fossa is as deep as H. erectus, but the glenoid process is more similar to Dali. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.]. Current Anthropology 54(suppl. Nature Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0698-9. ———. Interpretations of these events have tended to focus on different anatomical and cultural adaptations as the key underlying forces responsible for producing the differences between modern humans and Neanderthals. (2006) conducted the most recent morphometric analysis of the Jinniushan materials and drew a number of interesting conclusions. 2010), and another bottleneck after 48 ka (Dalén et al. (2013) demonstrate that favorable conditions combining low sea levels with elevated levels of precipitation to support terrestrial biomass (including humans) would have facilitated movements across the Bab-el-Mendab strait between East Africa and Arabia only in narrow windows of time, the latest of which dates to 70–65 ka. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. “[T]he ‘variation’ regarded as permissible within a single hominid species became expanded beyond all reason. Re-dating Changyang Cave in Hubei province, southern China. For example, Rightmire (2004) notes a number of cases of effective hominin hunting in Middle Pleistocene western Eurasia (e.g., Boxgrove, Schoningen). Avoiding giving formal Latin names to the different hominins that were present in eastern Asia during the Middle Pleistocene avoids false precision at the other end of the spectrum (splitting). Xujiayao is best known for the presence of an array of hominin fossils, including twelve parietals, two occipitals, and one temporal fragment that have been assigned to the archaic H. sapiens group. In particular, it should be noted that the Ryonggok hominin morphology includes “a rounded cranial vault, weak supraorbital tori, short face, steeply inclined forehead, absence of an occipital torus…, and presence of a chin” (Norton, 2000, p 814). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107:8910–8917. The human career. 2012). 2009. Arsuaga, Juan-Luis. Less pressure leads to smaller teeth and reduced masseter and temporalis muscles and muscle attachments, which ultimately leads to a more orthognathic face and reduction or disappearance of the sagittal crest (as reviewed recently by Lieberman, 2008 among others). Here, we test the … 2012. Harris, Kelley, and Rasmus Nielsen. In general, the teeth are considered to be large, with an occlusal morphology retaining primitive features (e.g., developed P4 accessory ridges, accessory fissures, and crests on the molars) of other Middle Pleistocene archaic hominins (Bailey and Liu, 2010). The Sima de los Huesos sample shows mosaics of Neanderthal and non-Neanderthal morphology in virtually all aspects of its morphology (Arsuaga et al. Science 322:1089–1092. 3 has an estimated cranial capacity of 1,650 cm3, and Skull no. 2006. As the quality and quantity of the eastern Asian paleoanthropological data improve and increase, we will be in a much stronger position to address many of the questions that were raised in this review. Some of the reconstructed lake levels (e.g., for Lake Malawi) do not closely follow the dust curves (fig. In each case, populations can be inferred to have spread from regions with favorable climate and thus presumably comparatively high human population density into regions previously nearly devoid of people but with newly favorable climatic conditions.Figure 3. Climate affects ecological productivity and biomass, which in turn affects human population numbers. Nature 399:255–258. Views of the origin of modern humans and our divergence from Neanderthals have been profoundly and perhaps decisively influenced by genetic data from living humans as well as ancient DNA (aDNA) from Neanderthals. 2011. In other realms of paleontology, minor differences are often grounds for coining a new specific name (see Tattersall, 1986). 's (2006) study conform to what might be expected of a female hominin living in this type of environment. Recently, a member of our own species was found in northern Arabia dating to ca. Question marks symbolize that the geographic source of the colonizing population is uncertain (and thus, one might assume, largely of local origin).View Large ImageDownload PowerPoint. Demography and the extinction of European Neanderthals. Quaternary Science Reviews 27:2253–2270. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101:12824–12829. It should be noted, however, that none of these character traits are viewed as true H. heidelbergensis autapomorphies, but rather as gradistic3 changes between H. erectus and H. sapiens (Rightmire, 2008). Green, Richard E., Johannes Krause, Adria W. Briggs, Tomislav Maricic, Udo Stenzel, Martin Kircher, Nick Patterson, et al. As a result, population size emerges as a key variable in both selection and drift. If encephalization is the primary mechanism operating in the mid-Pleistocene, then diverse aspects of cranial form cannot all be treated as independent variables. Nuclear DNA sequences from Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins show they were more closely related to Neanderthals than to Denisovans, and indicate a … Locations of paleoanthropological sites mentioned in the text. Several chronometric analyses have been performed, with late Middle Pleistocene [161,000 to 224,000 years or 104,000 to 125,000 years before the present (B.P.)] -Dentition well-suited for tearing and biting with canines &. Pp. They have had numerous labels applied to them over the years: archaic Homo sapiens, archaic humans, pre-modern humans and even late Homo erectus. Although there have been suggestions that Maba could represent an eastern Asian Neandertal (e.g., Wu and Wu, 1985), there is general agreement that Maba is more similar to other archaic H. sapiens from China. Comparison of the time lines of paleoclimate, the fossil record, and genetic divergences and bottlenecks provide a rough check of whether key events occur in periods favorable for large population numbers or in periods unfavorable for large populations (fig. 2008. In Aspects of human evolution. Nature 475:493–496. For example, Mandible no. Graves, Ronda R., Amy C. Lupo, Robert C. McCarthy, Daniel J. Wescott, and Deborah L. Cunningham. 1). 2001. Evaluating claims for an early peopling of the Americas: the broader context. In particular, cladistic studies and which chronometric dates are considered seem to influence the debate over whether H. heidelbergensis is present or absent in eastern Asia. In general, heavily worn molars of Pongo and Homo can be difficult to distinguish (Ciochon et al., 1996). In Africa, oscillations in precipitation were more crucial than temperature, and paleoclimatic records show that precipitation fluctuated dramatically in Africa during the Pleistocene. Advances in imaging, especially synchrotron x-rays, which allow researchers to peer inside teeth and count daily increments of enamel accretion (Smith and Tafforeau 2008), have revealed that Neanderthal children matured more rapidly than modern children (Smith et al. 2006) and the desiccation of Lake Tana around the same time (Lamb et al. ———. This article provides a synthesis of the available data, particularly by building on the seminal works of Pope (1992), Wu and Poirier (1995), and Etler (1996). Other SE Asian H. erectus fossils include Tham Kuyen (Vietnam), Tam Hang (Laos), Had Pu Dai (Thailand), and Ngandong and Sambungmacan (Indonesia) (Olsen and Ciochon, 1990 Ciochon et al., 1996; Schepartz et al., 2000; Anton, 2003; Marwick, 2009), though the phylogeny of the hominin fossils from mainland SE Asia is still debated. Hublin, J.-J., and A. M. Tillier. The usual cautions about the difference between census size and Ne apply, but one is left with the strong impression that western European Neanderthals experienced a major population crash during OIS 4. (2013). The implications of these findings are that contrary to previous conclusions (Ruff 1994), pelvic form appeared to have followed a pattern of largely neutral evolution like most human cranial dimensions (Betti et al. 1994. 2011. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:17–29. Given the recent argument that Neandertals have been identified as far east as Okladnikov Cave in southern Siberia (Krause etal., 2007), assigning the Salkhit hominin to Neandertals cannot be entirely discounted. Sutures between the frontal and the nasal and maxillary bones, 12. The two processes are not mutually exclusive, and both often act on a population at the same time. Debates range from lumpers questioning the validity of H. erectus as a separate species from H. sapiens (e.g., Wolpoff et al., 1984, 1994; Wolpoff and Caspari, 1997; Wolpoff, 1999) to splitters arguing as many as seven different hominin taxa (H. erectus, H. antecessor, H. heidelbergensis, H. rhodesiensis, H. helmei, H. neandertalensis, and H. sapiens) roamed the Old World during the Middle Pleistocene, some that were apparently coeval (for discussion see syntheses published in just the last decade by Stringer, 2002; Conroy, 2005; Brauer, 2008; Rightmire, 2008; Wood and Lonergan, 2008; Cartmill and Smith, 2009; Klein, 2009).1,2 Since the 1960s paleoanthropologists have allocated hominins from the Middle Pleistocene that predate Neandertals and modern humans, but display more derived features than H. erectus, into the category “archaic” H. sapiens. Metric analysis of the mesiodistal and buccal‐lingual measurements of the Ryonggok upper molars also generally fall within the range of modern humans (Fig. Grun et al. These results are exciting and motivate one to take a closer look at some of the recent genetic advances. Lest one think that Neanderthals and Denisovans were fundamentally different from modern humans in the face of climatic instability, it is important to realize that some recent research to model effective population size in modern human populations based on genomic data suggests that both the ancestors of living Europeans and Chinese experienced one or more severe bottlenecks between 40 and 20 ka such that the effective population size of each of these populations shrank to a size of approximately during this interval before rebounding to a higher size (to Ne between 11,000 and 50,000) during the Holocene (Li and Durbin 2011). The Maba fossil is composed of a partial frontal, parietals, right orbit, and nasal region, thought to represent an adult male (Pope, 1992; Wu and Poirier, 1995). U‐series dating of associated speleothems indicated an age range between 193 and 49 ka, which largely substantiates the earlier biostratigraphic study (Bacon et al., 2006). 99–121. Because of this unique topography, eastern Asia can be divided into two primary regions: 1) Siberia, Mongolia, northern China, Korea, and Japan; and 2) southern China and mainland and insular Southeast (SE) Asia. The picture is highly complex, and several taxa probably are needed to accommodate the fossils.” H. heidelbergensis is the taxonomic name becoming increasingly more common when referring to these “transitional” Middle Pleistocene hominins (Rightmire, 2008; Tattersall and Schwartz, 2008). In the early 1990s, it was proposed that H. erectus and H. sapiens overlapped in China (Chen and Zhang, 1991; Chen et al., 1994; Groves and Lahr, 1994).6 The primary evidence for this was the initial dating of the Hexian H. erectus fossils at ∼190–150 ka and the nearby Chaoxian archaic H. sapiens fossils, which were initially dated to ∼200–160 ka (Chen and Zhang, 1991). The … 2005. S. C. Reynolds and A. Gallagher, eds. Brooks, Alison S., and Peter Robertshaw. Rae, Todd C., Thomas Koppe, and Chris B. Stringer. A Middle Pleistocene hominin of Serbia: Internal structure of our early ancestor's teeth can be reliably classified into various hominin taxa 8 March 2016 New specimens, especially from areas less well represented in the fossil record, can inform the debate on morphological changes to the skeleton and teeth and the phylogenetic course of human … This suite of Neanderthal features had become common in European hominins by OIS 5, including the specimens from Krapina and Saccopatore, and they became even more frequent in OIS 4–3. Some of the excavation team uncovering animal fossils at the site of Ti's al Ghadah, Saudi Arabia in back in 2013. Both African and European Middle Pleistocene hominins tended to be medium to tall in stature (Carretero et al. ———. The formal application of generic and specific names simulates a precision that often does not exist.” Indeed, the title of the recent Yin et al. He thanks Yingqi Zhang for help with Figure 1 and Hyejin Yoo who drew Figure 4. Work on aDNA has also shed more light on Neanderthal population history, suggesting a marked bottleneck among their ancestors sometime before the time of the Mezmaiskaya neonate, 60–70 ka (Reich et al. American Journal of Human Genetics 82:1130–1140. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.]. Drift slows in large populations but accelerates in small populations and can override the signal of all but the strongest selective pressures. 2009. Indirect evidence from autosomal genes also supports the hypothesis that the African ancestors of modern humans experienced a major population bottleneck during this period. 2012; Reich et al. Recently, a number of authors have stressed that climatic deterioration in Europe and the Near East could have led to the local extinction of populations (Dennell, Martinón-Torres, and Bermúdez de Castro 2011; Hublin and Roebroeks 2009; Shea 2011; Stewart and Stringer 2012; Stringer 2006). U-series dating of hominin fossil-bearing Panlong Cave in Guangdong Province, southern China. ———. Nonlinear detection of paleoclimate-variability transitions possibly related to human evolution. By its dimensions and combination of features, Payre 15 aligns better with Middle Pleistocene European hominins than with MIS 6–3 Neandertals. A draft of the Neandertal genome. European Middle Pleistocene specimens, this feature is found only in a few large, robust individuals, including the Ceprano and Arago 47 crania and Atapuerca SH Cranium 4 (18, 23). 2010. I also suggest that eastern Asian hominin population size during the Middle Pleistocene was likely lower than in many regions of the western Old World, particularly Africa (sensu Wolpoff etal., 1984; Lycett and Norton, 2010). Hominin Evolution in the Middle-Late Pleistocene Fossils, Adaptive Scenarios, and Alternatives by Osbjorn M. Pearson Hominins from Europe and Africa shed light on functional adaptations and other aspects of lifeways during the Middle Paleolithic. They have had numerous labels applied to them over the years: archaic Homo sapiens, archaic humans, pre-modern humans and even late Homo erectus. Hylander, William L. 1977. PLoS ONE 5:e15582. It affords a singular glimpse of the pedal morphology of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin (c.f. The skel-etal remains share a number of morphological features with fossils classified asHomo heidelbergensis and also display distinct Neanderthal-derived traits6–8. The Jinniushan estimated cranial capacity of ∼1,300 cm3 is within the range of modern humans. Margins of error for dates for fossils or genetic events may overlap both favorable and unfavorable periods of climatic cycles. 1999). London: Penguin. 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