Palaeobotanical evidence reveals the living conditions of Miocene Lufengpithecus in East Asia.
Palaeobotanical evidence reveals the living conditions of Miocene Lufengpithecus in East Asia.
复制标题
DOI：
10.1186/s12870-023-04165-3
复制
发表时间：
2023-03-22
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Wang, Yu-Fei
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Lu, Li-Li;Yao, Yi-Feng;Wang, Guo-An;Xie, Gan;Lu, Kai-Qing;Sun, Bin;Li, Jin-Feng;Bruch, Angela A.;Ferguson, David K.;Cui, Yi-Ming;Wang, Qiang;Zhou, Xin-Ying;Gao, Feng;Wang, Yu-Fei
理解人类进化与环境变化之间的关系是揭开人类起源面纱的关键。环境变化引发了人类与类人猿（大约930万至650万年前）的分化，由于化石地点的连续环境数据有限，这一假设没有得到很好的验证。在青藏高原东南缘发现的陆丰猿人（12.5 ~ 6.0 Ma）为验证这一假设提供了很好的机会。本文利用古植物学证据，综合植被、气候和潜在食物网数据，结合其他多学科数据，重建了12.5 ~ 11.6 Ma keiyuanl的生境，并通过揭示陆丰猿人的生活条件，部分验证了环境驱动假说。对不同大陆的古人类的详细比较揭示了在全球气候变化的背景下，他们的行为和命运在猿人分裂过程中的差异，即SEMTP的稳定生活条件不仅为树栖的陆丰猿人提供了所谓的“避难所”，而且还起到了“双刃剑”的作用，阻止了他们的进一步进化，而东非的植被变化可能刺激了人类两足动物的出现。欧洲剧烈的气候变化可能阻止了这些古人类在那个时间间隔中生存下来。我们的发现为环境对类人猿行为进化的影响提供了有趣的见解。在线版本包含补充材料，可在10.1186/s12870-023-04165-3获得。
Understanding the relationship between human evolution and environmental changes is the key to lifting the veil on human origin. The hypothesis that environmental changes triggered the divergence of humans from apes (ca. 9.3–6.5 million years ago, Ma) has been poorly tested because of limited continuous environmental data from fossil localities. Lufengpithecus (12.5-6.0 Ma) found on the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (SEMTP) across the ape–human split provides a good chance for testing this hypothesis. Here, we reconstructed the habitats of L. keiyuanensis (12.5–11.6 Ma) with comprehensive vegetation, climate, and potential food web data by palaeobotanical evidence, together with other multidisciplinary data and partly tested the environment-driven hypothesis by revealing the living conditions of Lufengpithecus. A detailed comparison of hominoids on different continents reveals their behaviour and fate divergence across the ape–human split against the background of global climate change, i.e., the stable living conditions of SEMTP not only provided a so-called ‘refuge’ for arboreal Lufengpithecus but also acted as a ‘double-edged sword’, preventing their further evolution while vegetation shifts in East Africa probably stimulated the emergence of human bipedalism, and the intense climatic changes in Europe possibly prevented those hominoids from surviving that time interval. Our findings provide interesting insight into the environmental impacts on the behavioural evolution of hominoids. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12870-023-04165-3.
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子：
3
作者：
Biasatti, Dana;Wang, Yang;Flynn, Lawrence
通讯作者：
Flynn, Lawrence
影响因子：
64.8
作者：
CERLING, TE;WANG, Y;QUADE, J
通讯作者：
QUADE, J
影响因子：
1.9
作者：
Jimenez-Moreno, Gonzalo
通讯作者：
Jimenez-Moreno, Gonzalo
DOI：
10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.014
发表时间：
2017-03-15
影响因子：
3
作者：
Huang, Yong-Jiang;Ji, Xue-Ping;Zhou, Zhe-Kun
通讯作者：
Zhou, Zhe-Kun
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
Bonnefille, Raymonde
通讯作者：
Bonnefille, Raymonde