Statistical analyses of metric data of hominoid teeth found in Yuanmou of China |
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Authors: | Wu Liu Liang Zheng Chu Jiang |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044 Beijing, China;(2) Institute of Archaeology of Yunnan Province, 650118 Kunming, China;(3) Yuanmou Man Museum, 651300 Yuanmou, China |
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Abstract: | Mesial-distal and buccal-lingual dimensions of 1 266 hominoid teeth found in Yuanmou of Yunnan Province during the period
of 1986 and 1988 have been measured. The statistical analyses of the metric data show that the tooth sizes of Yuanmou hominoid
can be divided into big and small two types, and most tooth dimensions display obvious bimodalities in both histograms and
2 dimensional plots. The coefficients of variance (CV) reveal that the CVs of Yuanmou hominoid tooth sizes are within or close
to the CV ranges ofLufengpithecus and extant great apes. The comparisons of tooth sizes and their proportions indicate that Yuanmou hominoids have close affinities
with Lefeng and Kaiyuan hominoids, and have obvious differences with Gorilla, Chimpanzee and Orangutan. The authors believe
that the hominoid fossils found in Yuanmou in the past 10 years represent a single species with highly sexual dimorphism in
morphology and this species may have a close evolutionary relationship with the hominoids found in Kaiyuan and Lufeng. |
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Keywords: | human origin Yuanmou hominoid dental metrics statistical analyses |
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