46948 20210121114455.0 doi 10.1073/pnas.1514828112 sideral 91961 ART-2015-91961 eng Arsuaga, J.L. Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain 2015 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Current knowledge of the evolution of the postcranial skeleton in the genus Homo is hampered by a geographically and chronologically scattered fossil record. Here we present a complete characterization of the postcranium of the middle Pleistocene paleodeme from the Sima de los Huesos (SH) and its paleobiological implications. The SH hominins show the following: (i) wide bodies, a plesiomorphic char- acter in the genus Homo inherited from their early hominin ancestors; (ii) statures that can be found in modern human middle-latitude pop- ulations that first appeared 1.6–1.5 Mya; and (iii) large femoral heads in some individuals, a trait that first appeared during the middle Pleistocene in Africa and Europe. The intrapopulational size variation in SH shows that the level of dimorphism was similar to modern humans (MH), but the SH hominins were less encephalized than Ne- andertals. SH shares many postcranial anatomical features with Ne- andertals. Although most of these features appear to be either plesiomorphic retentions or are of uncertain phylogenetic polarity, a few represent Neandertal apomorphies. Nevertheless, the full suite of Neandertal-derived features is not yet present in the SH popula- tion. The postcranial evidence is consistent with the hypothesis based on the cranial morphology that the SH hominins are a sister group to the later Neandertals. Comparison of the SH postcranial skeleton to other hominins suggests that the evolution of the postcranium oc- curred in a mosaic mode, both at a general and at a detailed level. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2012-38434-C03-01 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2012-38434-C03-02 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2012-38434-C03-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 9.423 2015 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 4 / 62 = 0.065 2015 Q1 T1 6.814 2015 Multidisciplinary 2015 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Carretero, J.M Lorenzo, C. Gómez-Olivencia, A. Pablos, A. Rodríguez, L. García-González, R. Bonmatí, A. Qua, R.M. Pantoja-Pérez, A. Martínez, I. Aranburu, A. Gracia-Téllez, A. Poza-Rey, E. Sala, N. García, N. De Velasco, A.A. (orcid)0000-0001-5125-9651 Cuenca-Bescós, G. Universidad de Zaragoza De Castro, J.M.B. Carbonell, E. 2000 655 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra Área Paleontología 112, 37 (2015), 11524-11529 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 0027-8424 982909 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/46948/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 152095 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/46948/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:46948 articulos driver 2021-01-21-10:48:11 ARTICLE