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Frontal sinuses and human evolution
Balzeau, Antoine Albessard-Ball, Lou Kubicka, Anna Maria Filippo, Andréa Beaudet, Amélie Santos, Elena Bienvenu, Thibault Arsuaga, Juan-Luis Bartsiokas, Antonis Berger, Lee
Balzeau, Antoine
Albessard-Ball, Lou
Kubicka, Anna Maria
Filippo, Andréa
Beaudet, Amélie
Santos, Elena
Bienvenu, Thibault
Arsuaga, Juan-Luis
Bartsiokas, Antonis
Berger, Lee
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2022-10-21
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2022-03-11
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The frontal sinuses are cavities inside the frontal bone located at the junction between the face and the cranial vault and close to the brain. Despite a long history of study, understanding of their origin and variation through evolution is limited. This work compares most hominin species’ holotypes and other key individuals with extant hominids. It provides a unique and valuable perspective of the variation in sinuses position, shape, and dimensions based on a simple and reproducible methodology. We also observed a covariation between the size and shape of the sinuses and the underlying frontal lobes in hominin species from at least the appearance of <jats:italic>Homo erectus</jats:italic>. Our results additionally undermine hypotheses stating that hominin frontal sinuses were directly affected by biomechanical constraints resulting from either chewing or adaptation to climate. Last, we demonstrate their substantial potential for discussions of the evolutionary relationships between hominin species.
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Antoine Balzeau et al., Frontal sinuses and human evolution. Sci. Adv. 8, eabp9767 (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abp9767
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S.Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). The attached file is the published version of the article.
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2375-2548
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