Common evolutionary patterns in the human nasal region across a worldwide sample.
Homo sapiens
adaptation
cold-climate
genetic drift
natural selection
nose
population variation
Journal
American journal of physical anthropology
ISSN: 1096-8644
Titre abrégé: Am J Phys Anthropol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0400654
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2021
11 2021
Historique:
revised:
28
06
2021
received:
05
03
2021
accepted:
07
07
2021
pubmed:
1
8
2021
medline:
26
10
2021
entrez:
31
7
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Variation in the external nasal region among human populations has long been proposed in the literature to reflect adaptations to facilitate thermoregulation, air conditioning, and moisture retention in local climates and environments. More specifically, adaptations in populations living in colder climates have often been assumed due to correlational relationships found between variation in the nasal region and climatic variables. Here, we test this hypothesis by applying a quantitative genetics approach based on the Lande model to assess whether variation in the nasal region can be explained by random neutral processes (e.g., genetic drift) or if non-random forces (i.e., adaptation) have contributed significantly to its diversity. A mixed-sex sample representing 28 population groups from Howells' craniometric dataset were analyzed (n = 2504). Twenty standard measurements were chosen to reflect the external skeletal morphology of the nasal region. We apply statistical tests developed from evolutionary quantitative genetics theory to analyze patterns of within- and between-population divergence under a null hypothesis of genetic drift. This study finds a rejection of genetic drift in all analyses, across tests that involve all 28 populations, exclusively cold-climate populations, and with cold-climate populations excluded, indicating that non-random evolutionary forces have contributed significantly to variation in the nasal region overall. These results show that nasal region adaptation is not exclusive to cold-climate populations, which have often been implicated in the literature to drive nasal variation, instead suggesting that the propensity for adaptation in the nasal region is shared among all human populations.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
422-433Informations de copyright
© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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