A comparison of the nariokotome Homo erectus with juveniles from a modern human population.

abstract：:The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self-identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klimentidis YC,Miller GF,Shriver MD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Fueguians are descendants of the first settlers of America, a 'relict' isolated geographically for 10,000 years. We compared their cranial variation with other Americans, and samples from Asia and Australia to know whether the modern extinct Fueguians can be considered Paleoamericans or not. MATERIALS A...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Turbon D,Arenas C,Cuadras CM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research findings have highlighted the importance of early life conditions as risk factors for adult diseases and therefore determinants of subsequent survival. Given that individuals born during different seasons in seasonal environments experience different early-developmental conditions, an analysis of the e...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Muñoz-Tudurí M,García-Moro C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haplogroup R1a1-M198 is a major clade of Y chromosomal haplogroups which is distributed all across Eurasia. To this date, many efforts have been made to identify large SNP-based subgroups and migration patterns of this haplogroup. The origin and spread of R1a1 chromosomes in Eurasia has, however, remained unknown due ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pamjav H,Fehér T,Németh E,Pádár Z

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of precoccygeal vertebrae (PCV) are compared in Southern African Negroes, Bushman (San) and American Negroes. The S.A. Negro and San males have an exceptionally high frequency of an increased total PCV number whilst the frequencies are significantly lower in a combined Caucasoid sample and the Mongoloid sa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： de Beer Kaufman P

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity and small sample size are problems that affect many paleodemographic studies. The former can cause the overall distribution of age at death to be an amalgam that does not accurately reflect the distributions of any of the groups composing the heterogeneous population. The latter can make it difficult to ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Whittington SL

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretations of skeletal anatomy claiming to show that Neandertals could not have had a similar supralaryngeal vocal apparatus to that of humans are demonstrated to be flawed. Correction of the errors suggests that the Neandertal vocal apparatus need not have differed from that of recent humans. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Houghton P

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Byzantine Empire managed a complex administrative network that controlled the mining and processing of natural resources from within its boundaries. Scholars relying upon archeological and textual evidence debate the level of imperial involvement in these ventures, particularly in the provinces. Ancient sources no...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Perry MA,Coleman DS,Dettman DL,al-Shiyab AH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During excavations of the Bronze Age levels at El Mirador Cave, a hole containing human remains was found. Taphonomic analysis revealed the existence of cutmarks, human toothmarks, cooking damage, and deliberate breakage in most of the remains recovered, suggesting a clear case of gastronomic cannibalism. The piled di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cáceres I,Lozano M,Saladié P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactation is an energy demanding phase in the reproductive cycle of female mammals. For this reason, several studies have assessed the effects of lactation on female behavior. In this study we examine the influence of lactation on the time-budgets and foraging patterns of female black howlers (Alouatta pigra) in Campe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dias PA,Rangel-Negrín A,Canales-Espinosa D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeological and ethnohistorical documents suggest that the Chachapoya region was inhabited by a number of distinct sociopolitical groups that only united in the face of their common enemy, the Inka. The purpose of this research is to quantify the amount of internal genetic differentiation and levels of extraregiona...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nystrom KC

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Sattenspiel and Harpending (1983, American Antiquity 48(3): 489-498) have stated that the life expectancy at birth (e0(0] which paleodemographers calculate from skeletal population data is actually the mean age at death (ad) of the population. Yet, only when a population is neither growing or declining (i.e., is stati...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Horowitz S,Armelagos G,Wachter K

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ∼37 million-year-old Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), in the Birket Qarun Formation of Egypt's Fayum Depression, yields evidence for a diverse primate fauna, including the earliest known lorisiforms, parapithecoid anthropoids, and Afradapis longicristatus, a large folivorous adapiform. Phylogenetic analysis has pla...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boyer DM,Seiffert ER,Simons EL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A new tool for skeletal sex estimation based on measurements of the human os coxae is presented using skeletons from a metapopulation of identified adult individuals from twelve independent population samples. For reliable sex estimation, a posterior probability greater than 0.95 was considered to be the cla...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Brůžek J,Santos F,Dutailly B,Murail P,Cunha E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of independence of data points or the pooling fallacy has been suggested as a potential problem in the study of handedness in nonhuman primates, particularly as it relates to whether hand use responses should be recorded as individual events or bouts of activity. Here, I argue that there is no evidence that the c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hopkins WD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the extensive electromyographic research that has addressed limb muscle function during primate quadrupedalism, the role of the back muscles in this locomotor behavior has remained undocumented. We report here the results of an electromyographic (EMG) analysis of three intrinsic back muscles (multifidus, longi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shapiro LJ,Jungers WL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scarcity of information on control data of toe and plantar dermatoglyphics led us to undertake this study of adult American Caucasians. Toe and sole prints of 168 male and 83 female participants of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging were analyzed. Toe pattern frequencies demonstrate that fibular loops are t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fox KM,Plato CC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Galeta P,Sládek V,Sosna D,Bruzek J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basicranium has been argued to contain a strong phylogenetic signal in previous analyses of primate cranial morphology. Therefore, further study of basicranial morphology may offer new insights into controversial phylogenetic relationships within primate groups. In this study, I apply 3-D geometric morphometric te...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilbert CC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The premise that bones grow and remodel throughout life to adapt to their mechanical environment is often called Wolff's law. Wolff's law, however, is not always true, and in fact comprises a variety of different processes that are best considered separately. Here we review the molecular and physiological mechanisms b...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pearson OM,Lieberman DE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:European ancestry in many populations in Latin America at autosomal loci is often higher than that from X-linked loci indicating more European male ancestry and more Amerindian female ancestry. Generally, this has been attributed to more European male gene flow but could also result from an advantage to Euro...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hedrick PW

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a three-dimensional whole-body musculoskeletal model of the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) based on computed tomography and dissection of a cadaver. The skeleton was modeled as a chain of 20 bone segments connected by joints. Joint centers and rotational axes were estimated by joint morphology based ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ogihara N,Makishima H,Aoi S,Sugimoto Y,Tsuchiya K,Nakatsukasa M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The higher primate scapula has been subject to many explanations of the putative "adaptive value" of its individual traits. However, the shift from the bone's position in above branch quadrupeds to its more posterolateral position in recent hominoids obviously required fundamental changes to its general form...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Selby MS,Lovejoy CO

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metric and morphological characterizations of the permanent teeth from a total of 155 prehistoric Amerindians are presented. The individuals represent samples from three Ohio Valley burial complexes (considered together as the Late Diffuse group): Glacial Kame, Adena and Ohio Hopewell. Metric data include common measu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sciulli PW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of degenerative joint disease are investigated in the shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee joints of the macerated remains of approximately 800 individuals from 20th century American and two prehistoric populations. Age is an important contributory factor in all joints, but its effects are seen most directly in the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Jurmain RD

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) living in a Sumatran swamp forest yield an estimated median interbirth interval of at least 8 years, concurring with findings from other sites. This longest known mammalian interbirth interval appears due to maternal amenorrhea during the long exclusive dependence of the offs...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： van Noordwijk MA,van Schaik CP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the development of computed tomography, soft tissues and foreign body collections are distinguished with remarkable resolution. This distinction is particularly useful when examining desiccated human remains, both in construction of research strategies and when invasive procedure (i.e., traditional autopsies, nee...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wong PA

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the nutritional status of native children in the highlands of Nepal (1,700-3,000 m) and explores the relationship between child mortality and surviving children's nutritional status. A random sample of 145 households from 11 villages in the Koshi Hill Zone in east Nepal was surveyed, and the nu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huijbers PM,Hendriks JL,Gerver WJ,De Jong PJ,De Meer K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work explores the effects of European contact on Andean foodways in the Lambayeque Valley Complex, north coast Peru. We test the hypothesis that Spanish colonization negatively impacted indigenous diet. Diachronic relationships of oral health were examined from the dentitions of 203 late-pre-Hispanic and 175 colo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klaus HD,Tam ME

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00