large Hn nose & long upper jow not due to climate (Re: Neanderthal Nose Consequence Of Large Jaw

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<bobandjoany@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Rich Travsky wrote:
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>> http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050423/note17.asp
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>> From Milwaukee, at a joint meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society
> and
>> American Association of Physical Anthropologists
>>
>> Fossil evidence that Neandertals possessed exceptionally large,
> broad
>> noses has often been explained as an evolutionary response to life
> in
>> cold, dry locales. ...
>>
>> However, new data indicate that climate played no role in shaping
> the
>> Neandertal nose. Marc R. Meyer of the University of Pennsylvania in
>> Philadelphia and his coworkers found similarly sized nasal passages
>> in a set of 10 Neandertal skulls, some from Mediterranean and Middle
>> Eastern sites that were warm and humid and others from frigid
> European
>> sites.
>> ...
> Rich,
> If you have the article,this one would appreciate a copy.
> bobandjoany@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Bob
>> Noses don't evolve independently of other facial structures, Meyer
>> argues. A large Neandertal upper jaw laid the anatomical groundwork
> for
>> a broad nose, he proposes. Citing measurements of Neandertal and
> modern
>> skulls, Meyer and his colleagues find that the wider the upper jaw,
> the
>> larger the nasal cavity.
>>
>> Meyer, M.R., M.L. Chang, and J. Lewis. 2005. Functional morphology
> of
>> the Neandertal nose. Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American
>> Association of Physical Anthropologists. April 6-9. Milwaukee.
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