Changes in human skull morphology across the agricultural transition are consistent with softer diets in preindustrial farming groups.

Abstract:

:Agricultural foods and technologies are thought to have eased the mechanical demands of diet-how often or how hard one had to chew-in human populations worldwide. Some evidence suggests correspondingly worldwide changes in skull shape and form across the agricultural transition, although these changes have proved difficult to characterize at a global scale. Here, adapting a quantitative genetics mixed model for complex phenotypes, we quantify the influence of diet on global human skull shape and form. We detect modest directional differences between foragers and farmers. The effects are consistent with softer diets in preindustrial farming groups and are most pronounced and reliably directional when the farming class is limited to dairying populations. Diet effect magnitudes are relatively small, affirming the primary role of neutral evolutionary processes-genetic drift, mutation, and gene flow structured by population history and migrations-in shaping diversity in the human skull. The results also bring an additional perspective to the paradox of why Homo sapiens, particularly agriculturalists, appear to be relatively well suited to efficient (high-leverage) chewing.

authors

Katz DC,Grote MN,Weaver TD

doi

10.1073/pnas.1702586114

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-08-22 00:00:00

pages

9050-9055

issue

34

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

pii

1702586114

journal_volume

114

pub_type

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