期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 69, 期 6, 页码 1630-1642出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12672
关键词
Competition; morphological evolution; paleobiology; Paranthropus; primate; sympatry
资金
- NSF-IGERT [DGE-0801634]
- NSF-GRF
- Cosmos Club Scholars Award
Closely related species are likely to experience resource competition in areas where their ranges overlap. Fossil evidence suggests that hominins in East Africa c. 2-1.5 million years ago may have lived synchronically and sympatrically, and that competition may have contributed to the different tooth sizes observed in Homo and Paranthropus. To assess the likelihood that these taxa overlapped, we applied a character displacement model to the postcanine tooth size of fossil hominins and validated this model in populations of living primates. Mandibular fourth premolar (P-4) crown size was measured from fossil taxa and from living primate species where dietary overlap is established. Dimensions of the P-4 crown were fitted to a character matrix and described as the response variables of a generalized linear model that took taxon and location as input variables. The model recovered significant divergence in samples of closely related, living primates. When applied to fossil hominins the same model detected strong indications of character displacement between early Homo and Paranthropus (P = 0.002) on the basis of their P-4 crown size. Our study is an example of how ecologically informed morphologies measured in appropriate extant referents can provide a comparative context for assessing community and ecological evolution in the fossil record.
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