TOOTH-SIZE, BODY-SIZE AND GIANT FOSSIL MAN
TOOTH-SIZE, BODY-SIZE AND GIANT FOSSIL MAN
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DOI：
10.1525/aa.1958.60.5.02a00070
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发表时间：
1958-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
LEWIS, AB
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作者：
GARN, SM;LEWIS, AB
不同的作者（魏登赖希、冯·柯尼格斯瓦尔德、贝聿铭）基于巨大的牙齿或带有这种牙齿的颌骨，假设存在于亚洲西南部的巨型更新世人科动物（巨猿、Meganthropus）。对所有现有数据的分析都不能支持人科中颊齿的大小与总大小之间存在直接和普遍关系的任何想法。相反，南方古猿亚科拥有最大的牙齿，也是已知的最小的人科动物，而被调查的最高的群体（俄亥俄州的causasoids）拥有最小的牙齿。牙齿大小是许多进化过程的产物，与身高或总身体大小没有必然关系。由此得出的结论是，巨猿不仅不是“十二英尺高”，因为经常声称，但实际上可能不超过5英尺。
Various authors (Weidenreich, von Koenigswald, Pei) have postulated the existance of giant Pleistocene hominoids (Gigantopithecus, Meganthropus) from southwestern Asia, based on gigantic teeth, or jaws bearing such teeth. Analysis of all available data fails to support any idea of a direct and universal relation between size of cheek-teeth and total size in the Hominidae. Instead, the Australopithecinae have the largest teeth and are the smallest known hominids, while the tallest group investigated (causasoids of Ohio) had the smallest teeth. Tooth size in a population is a product of many evolutionary processes, and is not necessarily related either to height or to total body size. It is concluded that Gigantopithecus not only was not "twelve feet high" as frequently claimed but actually was probably not over 5 feet.