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dc.contributor.authorPerea-García, Juan Olvido
dc.contributor.authorKret, Mariska E.
dc.contributor.authorMonteiro, Antónia
dc.contributor.authorHobaiter, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-04T09:30:03Z
dc.date.available2019-09-04T09:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-03
dc.identifier.citationPerea-García , J O , Kret , M E , Monteiro , A & Hobaiter , C 2019 , ' Scleral pigmentation leads to conspicuous, not cryptic, eye morphology in chimpanzees ' , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , vol. Latest Articles , 201911410 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911410116en
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 261009189
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dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:D9D1C122D5EEA0E1C8335CFD28590F09
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3893-0524/work/61370044
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85072643334
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000487532900012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18414
dc.description.abstractGaze following has been argued to be uniquely human, facilitated by our depigmented, white sclera [M. Tomasello, B. Hare, H. Lehmann, J. Call, J. Hum. Evol. 52, 314–320 (2007)]—the pale area around the colored iris—and to underpin human-specific behaviors such as language. Today, we know that great apes show diverse patterns of scleral coloration [J. A. Mayhew, J. C. Gómez, Am. J. Primatol. 77, 869–877 (2015); J. O. Perea García, T. Grenzner, G. Hešková, P. Mitkidis, Commun. Integr. Biol. 10, e1264545 (2016)]. We compare scleral coloration and its relative contrast with the iris in bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans. Like humans, bonobos’ sclerae are lighter relative to the color of their irises; chimpanzee sclerae are darker than their irises. The relative contrast between the sclera and iris in all 3 species is comparable, suggesting a perceptual mechanism to explain recent evidence that nonhuman great apes also rely on gaze as a social cue.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americaen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2019 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).en
dc.subjectScleraen
dc.subjectIrisen
dc.subjectEyeen
dc.subjectColorationen
dc.subjectComparative morphologyen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleScleral pigmentation leads to conspicuous, not cryptic, eye morphology in chimpanzeesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911410116
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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