Body size and its consequences: Allometry and the lower limb length of Liang Bua 1 (Homo floresiensis)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-228

  Holliday, Trenton W ^a   Franciscus, Robert G ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Australopithecus; Body mass; Femur length; Homo floresiensis

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; HOMINID; LIMB; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMO FLORESIENSIS;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 69549114283     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Argue D., Donlon D., Groves C., and Wright R. Homo floresiensis: microcephalic, pygmoid, Australopithecus or Homo?. J. Hum. Evol. 51 (2006) 360-374
2. Arsuaga J.L., Bonmati A., and Carretero J.M. A new reconstruction of Pelvis 1 (Homo heidelbergensis) from the Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca). Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 42 (2006) 59
3. Brown P., Sutikna T., Morwood M.J., Soejono R.P., JatmikoWayhu Saptomo E., and Awe Due R. A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 431 (2004) 1055-1061
4. Conroy G.C., and Smith R.J. The size of scalable brain components in the human evolutionary lineage: with a comment on the paradox of Homo floresiensis. Homo 58 (2007) 1-12
5. Culotta E. When hobbits (slowly) walked the earth. Science 320 (2008) 433-435
6. Darveau C.-A., Suarez R.K., Andrews R.D., and Hochachka P.W. Allometric cascade as a unifying principle of body mass effects on metabolism. Nature 417 (2002) 166-170
7. Falk D., Hildebolt C., Smith K., Morwood M.J., Sutikna T., JatmikoSaptomo E.W., Imhof H., Seidler H., and Prior F. Brain shape in human microcephalics and Homo floresiensis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104 (2007) 2513-2518
8. Feldesman M.R., and Lundy J.K. Stature estimates for some African Plio-Pleistocene fossil hominids. J. Hum. Evol. 17 (1988) 583-596
9. Franciscus R.G., and Holliday T.W. Hindlimb Skeletal Allometry in Plio-Pleistocene hominids with special reference to AL-288-1 ("Lucy"). Bull. Mém. Soc. Anthropol. Paris 22 (1992) 1-16
10. Fully G. Une nouvelle méthode de determination de la taille. Ann. Med. Legale 35 (1956) 266-273
11. Gabounia L., de Lumley M.-A., Vekua A., Lordkipanidze D., and de Lumley H. Découverte d'un nouvel hominidé à Dmanissi (Transcaucasie, Géorgie). C.R. Palevol. 1 (2002) 243-253
12. Garcia G.L.M., and da Silva J.K.L. Interspecific allometry of bone dimensions: a review of the theoretical models. Phys. Life Rev. 3 (2006) 188-209
13. Geissmann T. Length estimate for KNM-ER 736, a hominid femur from the Lower Pleistocene of East Africa. Hum. Evol. 1 (1986) 481-493
14. Gordon A.D., Nevell L., and Wood B. The Homo floresiensis cranium (LB1): size, scaling, and early Homo affinities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105 (2008) 4650-4655
15. Green D.J., Gordon A.D., and Richmond B.G. Limb-size proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus. J. Hum. Evol. 52 (2007) 187-200
16. Grine F.E., Jungers W.L., Tobias P.V., and Pearson O.M. Fossil Homo femur from Berg Aukas, Northern Namibia. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 97 (1995) 151-185
17. Haeusler M., and McHenry H.M. Body proportions of Homo habilis reviewed. J. Hum. Evol. 46 (2004) 433-465
18. Hens S.M., Konigsberg L.W., and Jungers W.L. Estimating stature in fossil hominids: which regression model and reference sample to use?. J. Hum. Evol. 38 (2000) 767-784
19. Hershkovitz I., Kornreich L., and Laron Z. Comparative skeletal features between Homo floresiensis and patients with primary growth hormone insensitivity (Laron Syndrome). Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 134 (2007) 198-206
20. Holliday T.W. Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. J. Hum. Evol. 32 (1997) 423-447
21. Holliday T.W., and Ruff C.B. Relative variation in human proximal and distal limb segment lengths. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 116 (2001) 26-33
22. Jacob T., Indriati E., Soejono R.P., Hsu K., Frayer D.W., Eckhardt R.B., Kuperavage A.J., Thorne A., and Henneberg M. Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: population affinities and pathological abnormalities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103 (2006) 13421-13426
23. Johanson D.C., Lovejoy O.C., Kimbel W.H., White T.D., Ward S.C., Bush M.E., Latimer B.M., and Coppens Y. Morphology of the Pliocene partial skeleton (A.L. 288-1) from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 57 (1982) 403-451
24. Jungers W.L. Lucy's limbs: skeletal allometry and locomotion in Australopithecus afarensis. Nature 297 (1982) 676-678
25. Jungers W.L. Relative joint size and hominoid locomotor adaptations with implications for the evolution of hominid bipedalism. J. Hum. Evol. 17 (1988) 247-265
26. Jungers W.L. Scaling of postcranial joint size in hominoid primates. Hum. Evol. 6 (1991) 391-399
27. Jungers W.L. A pygmy perspective on body size and shape in Australopithecus afarensis (A.L. 288-1, "Lucy"). In: Senut B., and Coppens Y. (Eds). Origine(s) de la Bipédie Chez les Hominidés (1991), Cahiers de Paléoanthropologie, Paris 215-224
28. Jungers W.L., and Stern Jr. J.T. Body proportions, skeletal allometry and locomotion in the Hadar hominids: a reply to Wolpoff. J. Hum. Evol. 12 (1983) 673-684
29. Leakey R.E., Leakey M.G., and Behrensmeyer A.K. The hominid catalog. In: Leakey M.G., and Leakey R.E. (Eds). Koobi Fora Research Project, vol. 1: The Fossil Hominids and An Introduction to their Context 1968-1974 (1978), Clarendon Press, Oxford 86-182
30. Lordkipanidze D., Jashashvili T., Vekua A., Ponce de León M.S., Zollikofer C.P.E., Rightmire G.P., Pontzer H., Ferring R., Oms O., Tappen M., Bukhsianidze M., Agusti J., Kahlke R., Kiladze G., Martinez-Navarro B., Mouskhelishvili A., Nioradze M., and Rook L. Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia. Nature 449 (2007) 305-310
31. de Lumley M.A., and Lordkipanidze D. L'homme de Dmanissi (Homo georgicus), il y a 1 810 000 ans. C.R. Palevol. 5 (2006) 273-281
32. Martin R.D., Genoud M., and Hemelrijk C.K. Problems of allometric scaling analysis: examples from mammalian reproductive biology. J. Exp. Biol. 208 (2005) 1731-1747
33. Martin R.D., MacLarnon A.M., Phillips J.L., and Dobyns W.B. Flores hominid: new species or microcephalic dwarf?. Anat. Rec. A. Discov. Mol. Cell. Evol. Biol. 288 (2006) 1123-1145
34. McHenry H.M. Femoral lengths and stature in Plio-Pleistocene hominids. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 85 (1991) 149-158
35. Morwood M.J., Brown P., JatmikoSutikna T., Wahyu Saptomo E., Westaway K.E., Awe Due R., Roberts R.G., Maeda T., Wasisto S., and Djubiantono T. Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 437 (2005) 1012-1017
36. Obendorf P.J., Oxnard C.E., and Kefford B.J. Are the small human-like fossils found on Flores human endemic cretins?. Proc. R. Soc. B 275 (2008) 1287-1296
37. Richmond B.G., and Jungers W.L. What does the proximal femur tell us about the evolution of bipedalism over the past six million years?. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Suppl. 46 (2008) 180
38. Roberts D.F. Climate and Human Variability. second ed. (1978), Cummings, Menlo Park, CA
39. Rosenberg K.R., Lü Z., and Ruff C.B. Body size, body proportions, and encephalization in a Middle Pleistocene archaic human from northern China. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103 (2006) 3552-3556
40. Ruff C.B. Morphological adaptation to climate in modern and fossil hominids. Yearb. Phys. Anthropol. 37 (1994) 65-107
41. Ruff C.B., Trinkaus E., and Holliday T.W. Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo. Nature 387 (1997) 173-176
42. Ruff C.B., and Walker A. Body size and body shape. In: Walker A., and Leakey R. (Eds). The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton (1993), Harvard University Press, Cambridge 234-265
43. Simpson S.W., Quade J., Levin N.E., Butler R., Dupont-Nivet G., Everett M., and Semaw S. A female Homo erectus pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia. Science 322 (2008) 1089-1092
44. Smith R.J. Rethinking allometry. J. Theor. Biol. 87 (1980) 97-111
45. Tocheri M.W., Orr C.M., Larson S.G., Sutikna T., JatmikoSaptomo E.W., Awe Due R., Djubiantono T., Morwood M.J., and Jungers W.L. The primitive wrist of Homo floresiensis and its implications for hominin evolution. Science 317 (2007) 1743-1745
46. Vančata V. A preliminary analysis of long bone measurements of Homo floresiensis: bone robusticity, body size, proportions and encephalisation. Anthropologie 43 (2005) 173-182
47. Walker A., and Ruff C.B. The reconstruction of the pelvis. In: Walker A., and Leakey R. (Eds). The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton (1993), Harvard University Press, Cambridge 221-233
48. West G.B., Brown J.H., and Enquist B.J. A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology. Science 276 (1997) 122-126
49. Wolpoff M.H. Lucy's little legs. J. Hum. Evol. 12 (1983) 443-453