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Título: The adaptive significance of human scleral brightness: an experimental study
Autores/as: Wacewicz, J. Slawomir
Olvido Perea-García,Juan 
Lewandowski, Zdzisław
Danel, Dariusz P.
Clasificación UNESCO: 2410 Biología humana
51 Antropología
Palabras clave: Biological anthropology
Human behaviour
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Publicación seriada: Scientific Reports 
Resumen: Homogeneously depigmented sclerae have long been proposed to be uniquely human—an adaptation to enable cooperative behaviour by facilitating interpersonal coordination through gaze following. However, recent evidence has shown that deeply pigmented sclerae also afford gaze following if surrounding a bright iris. Furthermore, while current scleral depigmentation is clearly adaptive in modern humans, it is less clear how the evolutionarily intermediate stages of scleral pigmentation may have been adaptive. In sum, it is unclear why scleral depigmentation became the norm in humans, while not so in sister species like chimpanzees, or why some extant species display intermediate degrees of pigmentation (as our ancestors presumably did at some point). We created realistic facial images of 20 individually distinct hominins with diverse facial morphologies, each face in the (i) humanlike bright sclera and (ii) generalised apelike dark sclera version. Participants in two online studies rated the bright-sclera hominins as younger, healthier, more attractive and trustworthy, but less aggressive than the dark-sclera hominins. Our results support the idea that the appearance of more depigmented sclerae promoted perceived traits that fostered trust, increasing fitness for those individuals and resulting in depigmentation as a fixed trait in extant humans.
URI: https://accedacris.ulpgc.es/handle/10553/140051
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24403-2
Fuente: Scientific Reports [ISSN 2045-2322], v. 12 (Noviembre 2022)
Colección:Artículos
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