Relationships between the hard and soft dimensions of the nose in Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens reveal the positions of the nasal tips of Plio-Pleistocene hominids

Ryan M. Campbell; Gabriel Vinas; Maciej Henneberg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259329

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Relationships between the hard and soft dimensions of the nose in Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens reveal the positions of the nasal tips of Plio-Pleistocene hominids

Ryan M. Campbell ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ryan.campbell@adelaide.edu.au

Affiliation Adelaide Medical School, Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2630-1701

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Gabriel Vinas,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sculpture Department, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
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Maciej Henneberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Adelaide Medical School, Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1941-2286

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Relationships between the hard and soft dimensions of the nose in Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens reveal the positions of the nasal tips of Plio-Pleistocene hominids

Ryan M. Campbell,
Gabriel Vinas,
Maciej Henneberg

Published: February 22, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259329

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Why did neandertals have such large noses?

Posted by marc_verhaegen on 28 Feb 2022 at 21:53 GMT

This interesting study shows that the length of the nasal cavity of all extant hominids (Pan, H.sapiens & Gorilla) is comparable. However, (1) "it only analyzed the length of the nose, which excludes other elements of the nasal form lateral to the mid-sagittal plane", (2) it doesn't explain why archaic Homo (erectus & neanderth.) had receding foreheads & chins, but projecting mid-faces & (at least neandertals, less certain in erectus) remarkably large noses (e.g. already C.S.Coon 1954 "The Story of Man" Knopf NY). In my opinion, this can easily be explained by comparative biology, e.g. google "Oi, big nose!" (New Scientist 2782:69, 2010).

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Relationships between the hard and soft dimensions of the nose in Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens reveal the positions of the nasal tips of Plio-Pleistocene hominids

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