Fracture trauma in a medieval British farming village.

abstract：:Histomorphometric analysis of femoral and tibial diaphyseal fragments from seven Late Archaic and three Early Modern humans are compared with those of the Pecos, a pre-Columbian Native American population. The ten samples, from Broken Hill (EM-793), Shanidar 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Tabun 1, and Skhul 3, 6, and 7, provide a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Abbott S,Trinkaus E,Burr DB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methods used to study human growth and development (auxology) have not previously been applied within the setting of hominin maturation (ontogeny). Ontogeny is defined here as the pattern of biological change into an adult form, both at the individual and species level. The hominin fossil record has a lack of reco...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bolter DR,Cameron N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the correlations between the languages spoken by human populations and the genes carried by the members of those populations have been limited by the small amount of genetic markers available and by approximations in the treatment of linguistic data. In this study we analyzed a large collection of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belle EM,Barbujani G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variability is evaluated in a series of skeletal samples from the Apalachee region of Florida. Based on ethnohistoric evidence, several predictive models for changes in variability are generated. If variability decreases through time, this likely represents the effect of genetic drift in populations experie...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stojanowski CM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand radiograms for osseographic assessment of bone aging status were taken from more than 7,500 individuals residing in 31 different localities and belonging to 20 ethnic groups. Multiple regression analysis was used to evaluate possible associations between bone aging parameters and several climatic factors, to wit:...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belkin V,Livshits G,Otremski I,Kobyliansky E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transferrin phenotypes of 256 rhesus monkeys and their parents were identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The segregation ratio for phenotypes involving only alleles of high electrophoretic mobility was statistically significantly higher than expected and suggests that selection favors these more negat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Smith DG

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The growth of tooth dentin is incremental, so its formation represents a dietary record in early life. With archeological skeletons, applying sequential stable isotope analysis to the horizontal sections of tooth dentin has revealed weaning patterns and dietary changes that took place during childhood. Howev...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tsutaya T

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the influence of nutritional status on the emergence of deciduous dentition in a cross-sectional sample of 510 rural Rajput children from the Jubbal and Kotkhai Tehsils, Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh, India. The nutritional status of each child was evaluated using Z-scores of height/supine le...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gaur R,Kumar P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study investigates metabolic bone disease and the relationship between age and bone mineral density (BMD) in males and females of a large, well-documented skeletal population of free-ranging rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), from the Caribbean Primate Research Center Museum collection from Cayo San...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cerroni AM,Tomlinson GA,Turnquist JE,Grynpas MD

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this investigation was to analyze the underlying cause(s) of secular changes in craniofacial dimensions among indigenous children in an isolated community in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, between 1968-2000. Subjects were schoolchildren resident in a rural, agrarian, Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Little BB,Buschang PH,Peña Reyes ME,Tan SK,Malina RM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Femoral head size provides important information on body size in extinct species. Although it is well-known that femoral head size is correlated with acetabular size, the precision with which femoral head size can be estimated from acetabular size has not been quantified. The availability of accurate 3D surface models...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Hammond AS,Ward CV

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied patterns of genetic relatedness and paternity in moustached tamarins, small Neotropical primates living in groups of 1-4 adult males and 1-4 adult females. Generally only one female per group breeds, mating with more than one male. Twin birth are the norm. In order to examine the genetic consequences of thi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huck M,Löttker P,Böhle UR,Heymann EW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now known that several population movements have taken place at different times throughout southern Arabian prehistory. One of the principal questions under debate is if the Early Holocene peopling of southern Arabia was mainly due to input from the Levant during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, to the expansion of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Al-Abri A,Podgorná E,Rose JI,Pereira L,Mulligan CJ,Silva NM,Bayoumi R,Soares P,Cerný V

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the relationship between traditional skeletal cephalometric measurement and Fourier analysis of the lateral soft-tissue profile. A random sample of 121 untreated subjects of European descent, with wide ranges of malocclusions and underlying facial patterns, was selected in the Or...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rose AD,Woods MG,Clement JG,Thomas CD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether earlier age at menarche is associated with higher body mass index (BMI) because they share a common genetic underpinning. We investigated the impact of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influencing menarche timing on peripubertal BMI. For 556 Fels Longitudinal Study children (277 boys/279 gi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnson W,Choh AC,Curran JE,Czerwinski SA,Bellis C,Dyer TD,Blangero J,Towne B,Demerath EW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Early Neolithic involved an important social and economic shift that can be tested not only with the material culture, but also through biomolecular approaches. The Iberian Peninsula presents few Early Neolithic sites where fauna and humans can be analyzed together from an isotopic perspective. Here we p...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Villalba-Mouco V,Utrilla P,Laborda R,Lorenzo JI,Martínez-Labarga C,Salazar-García DC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal reproductive investment includes both the energetic costs of gestation and lactation. For most humans, the metabolic costs of lactation will exceed those of gestation. Mothers must balance reproductive investment in any single offspring against future reproductive potential. Among mammals broadly, mothers may...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Quinn EA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angular and linear measurements of maxillary first molar occlusal polygons are given for young San (Bushmen), Sotho, Asiatic Indians, Whites, and Papago Indians. Angular and linear measurements are inseparably related. Much greater variation occurs in widths than in lengths. Maximum variation occurs between San and Pa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Morris DH

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to help define the boundaries of the distribution of the albumin variants Naskapi and Mexico which are polymorphic among several American Indian groups, we examined sera from Micmac, Mohawk, Northwest River Naskapi, Omaha and Apache Indians, and from Aleuts and Eskimos. Sera from a total of 1,524 individuals ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schell LM,Agarwal SS,Blumberg BS,Levy H,Bennett PH,Laughlin WS,Martin JP

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often suggested that the frontal sinus morphology of no two individuals is alike, and that the configuration of the frontal sinus is as unique to an individual as his or her fingerprints. However, no empirical, quantitative testing of the uniqueness of frontal sinus outlines has ever been performed. Such testing...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Christensen AM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The condyles of 72 aged and sexed Haida Indians were measured for anteroposterior and mediolateral diameter and their approximate areas calculated. Dental wear was assessed for the same individuals. Asymmetry of condyle size did not appear to change with age. In a pair-wise analysis, no relationship was found between ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Costa RL Jr

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various workers, including T. D. Stewart, claim that the aboriginal Americas were relatively disease-free because of the bering Strait cold-screen, eliminating many pathogens, and the paucity of zoonotic infections because of few domestic animals. Evidence of varying validity suggests that precontact Americns had thei...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Newman MT

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlations between ridge-counts on the ten fingers were compared by race and sex in 11 samples representing Negroes and Caucasians: five from subsaharan Africa, one American Black, three European, one American White and one from India. The samples of European ancestry showed no consistent sex difference in mean corr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Jantz RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that some observed patterns of force production in the primate masticatory system match those predicted by a simplified lever model. This model is also commonly invoked in adaptive explanations of craniodental diversity. However, systematic studies of the predictive power of this model are missi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Spencer MA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this review is to put core features of human sexuality in an evolutionary light. Toward that end, I address five topics concerning the evolution of human sexuality. First, I address theoretical foundations, including recent critiques and developments. While much traces back to Darwin and his view of sexual ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gray PB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Territoriality refers to the consistent defense of an area within the home range (HR) against intrusions of conspecifics. It implies exclusive space use with low degree of overlap among neighboring groups, high site fidelity, specific ranging behavior such as high mobility relative to HR size and frequent vi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Van Belle S,Porter A,Fernandez-Duque E,Di Fiore A

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Among the diagnostic features of the Neandertal mandible are the broad base of the coronoid process and its straight posterior margin. The adaptive value of these (and other) anatomical features has been linked to the Neandertal's need to cope with a large gape. The present study aims to test this hypothesis...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Marom A,Rak Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mandibular cross sections of Pan, Pongo, Gorilla, Homo, and two fossil specimens of Paranthropus were examined by computed tomography (CT) to determine the biomechanical properties of the hominoid mandibular corpus. Images obtained by CT reveal that while the fossil hominids do not differ significantly from extant hom...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Daegling DJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy demands of pregnancy and lactation together with the accumulation of stored fat in human females during development suggest that a critical level of fat may be required for menarche; but multivariate analyses have supported the alternative view that skeletal growth is the main factor. However, significant d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lassek WD,Gaulin SJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of consanguineous marriages on offspring's gestational age and anthropometrics at birth were investigated in Beirut through a hospital-based survey of 1,252 newborns. Twenty-five percent of all newborns were inbred, and the mean inbreeding coefficient was 1.25%. Neither prematurity rate nor weight, length, hea...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Khlat M

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00