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ArticleRoyal Society open science2025

Morphometric characterization of Holocene mandibles expands the ecological baseline for understanding gibbon extinction dynamics.

Samuel T Turvey, Alejandra Ortiz, Matthew Granger, Selina Brace, Rasmus Amund Henriksen, Qingping Yang, Tuấn Anh Nguyễn, Laura T Buck, Heidi Ma, James P Hansford and 4 more

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Samuel T TurveyInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3717-4800
Alejandra OrtizDepartment of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Matthew GrangerInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.
Selina BraceDepartment of Science, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2126-6732
Rasmus Amund HenriksenUniversity of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark.
Qingping YangGuangxi Institute of Cultural Relic Protection and Archaeology, Nanning, People's Republic of China.
Tuấn Anh NguyễnFaculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Laura T BuckLiverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
Heidi MaInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.
James P HansfordInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5702-8915
Thomas BoothDepartment of Science, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Helen J ChatterjeeUniversity College London, London, UK.
Pengfei FanSchool of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4747-5727
Xi ChenDepartment of Cultural Heritage and Museology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

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Abstract

Human activities have driven biodiversity loss for millennia, and conservation of 'refugee species' that survive as remnant populations requires insights from historical baselines. However, reconstructing the past distribution and ecology of such species is challenging due to data limitations with specimen-based archives. Here, we assess the taxonomic identity of two gibbon mandibles from the Wumingshan Neolithic site in Guangxi, China. Although ancient DNA extraction was unsuccessful, a suite of linear and geometric morphometric analyses using dental and mandibular characters reveals that these mandibles fall within or close to variation shown by extant Chinese

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cao vit gibbonconservation palaeobiologygeometric morphometricshistorical baselinesNomascus nasutusrefugee species

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