Finger length and distal finger extent patterns in humans.

abstract：:The purpose of this brief communication is to report the results of an analysis of maxillary premolar accessory ridges (MxPAR), a common but understudied accessory ridge that may occur both mesial and distal to the central ridge of the buccal cusp of upper premolars. We developed a new five-grade scoring plaque to bet...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Burnett SE,Hawkey DE,Turner CG 2nd

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether (1) maximal handgrip strength (HGS) is associated with inter-island level of economic development in Vanuatu, (2) how associations between island of residence and HGS are mediated by age, sex, body size/composition, and individual sociodeomographic variation, and (3) whether HGS is predi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Olszowy KM,Little MA,Lee G,Pomer A,Dancause KN,Sun C,Silverman H,Chan CW,Tarivonda L,Kaneko A,Weitz C,Koji Lum J,Garruto RM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that bone and dental strontium contents of extinct terrestrial vertebrates vary in direct proportion to the strontium levels present in the animals' diets. It has been hypothesized that these trace quantities decrease as one moves upward along the food chain--herbivores having more strontium than...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Elias M

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Human language represents an extreme form of communicative complexity. Primate facial display complexity, which depends upon facial mobility, can be used as a model for the study of the evolution of communicative complexity. The gelada (Theropithecus gelada) is the only primate that can produce a lip-flip ev...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lazow SP,Bergman TJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns one problem encountered with application of American white dental formation standards to age assessment of sub-adults of archaeological context. Dental ages for eight mandibular permanent teeth and maxillary central and lateral incisors of Arikara Indian immature skeletons were determined accordin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Owsley DW,Jantz RL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have suggested that incisor microwear reflects diet and feeding adaptations of anthropoids. However, such studies have been largely qualitative, and interpretations have relied on anecdotal references to diet and tooth use reported in the socioecology literature. The current study relates incisor micro...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ungar PS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace elements in the dental enamel of 43 prehistoric Indians from Illinois, Maryland and Virginia show concentration differences by age, sex and geographical locality. Sample areas on an incisor or first molar were blocked off with paraffin, washed twice with distilled water and etched 7 times with 6N HCl. An optical...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： LES Hoyme,Koritzer RT

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable rheumatologic disorder. It should be deleted as an identifier for oste...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spearman-Brown Prophesy formula, derived from psychometrics, may be used in anthropometric studies to describe the relationship between the intraclass reliability coefficient for a single measurement and the reliability resulting from the mean of replicate measurements. This theory may be applied to determine expe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Himes JH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial reshaping of the cranial vault has been practiced by many human groups and provides a natural experiment in which the relationships of neurocranial, cranial base, and facial growth can be investigated. We test the hypothesis that fronto-occipital artificial reshaping of the neurocranial vault results in spe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cheverud JM,Kohn LA,Konigsberg LW,Leigh SR

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of an apomorphic reciprocal chromosomal translocation in the gorilla lineage has been asserted or denied by various cytogeneticists. We employed a new molecular cytogenetic strategy (chromosomal in situ suppression hybridization) combined with high-resolution banding, replication sequence analysis, and f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stanyon R,Wienberg J,Romagno D,Bigoni F,Jauch A,Cremer T

更新日期：1992-06-01 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 approximal surfaces of premolars and molars of 376 adult British-Romano skulls were examined for wear facets. The type of wear was designated as convex, concave, sigmoid, or flat, and the degree was categorised on a three-point scale. Concave wear facets were more frequently seen in the older age groups, but the t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Whittaker DK,Ryan S,Weeks K,Murphy WM

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pelvic features, mostly known as parturition scars, have been extensively studied in the last decades and are frequently investigated in archaeological and forensic contexts. It is still unclear, however, whether they really relate to pregnancy and birth, or whether these features are caused by other biomech...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Waltenberger L,Pany-Kucera D,Rebay-Salisbury K,Mitteroecker P

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently proposed model for canine reduction in hominid evolution (the "dual selection" model) suggests that canine reduction occurs as a result of selection for incorporation of the canines into a functional incisal field. Among the evidence used to support this model are patterns of wear and occlusion of the canin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Kelley J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the evolution of the hominin masticatory apparatus has been linked to diet and food processing, the physical connection between neurocranium and lower jaw suggests a role of encephalization in the trend of dental and mandibular reduction. Here, the hypothesis that tooth size and mandibular robustici...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Veneziano A,Meloro C,Irish JD,Stringer C,Profico A,De Groote I

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies of the relationship between developmental enamel defects and caries susceptibility have often produced conflicting results. This has been due in part to a failure to distinguish between different types of defects. Studies of this association in prehistoric populations have been rare. The complete deci...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Duray SM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral skull radiographs of 124 boys aged approximately 10 years divided equally between the four angle classes were digitized in an effort to establish the relationship between cranial base size and shape and jaw relationship. Comparison of the means for occlusal groups showed a trend from class II to class III ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kerr WJ,Adams CP

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately estimating biological sex from the human skeleton can be especially difficult for fragmentary or incomplete remains often encountered in bioarchaeological contexts. Where typical anatomically dimorphic skeletal regions are incomplete or absent, observers often take their best guess to classify biological se...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Passalacqua NV,Zhang Z,Pierce SJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive (n = 739) sample of well-documented male pubic bones was examined for age-related features. Using the traditional aging methods, Todd's system was found to over-age and both the Todd and the McKern-Stewart systems did not account for age variability seen in advanced pubic bone patterns. Based on a 5-year ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Katz D,Suchey JM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has revealed extensive genetic variation among villages on Bougainville, in the Solomon Islands. Using previously published gene frequency data for seven loci, the role of isolation by distance in structuring genetic variation on Bougainville was reanalyzed. Newer methods of kinship estimation show t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Relethford JH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike monozygotic (MZ) twins, dizygotic (DZ) twins develop from separate ova. The resulting twins can have different sires if the fertilizing sperm comes from different males. Routine paternity testing of a pair of same-sexed chimpanzee twins born to a female housed with two males indicated that the twins were sired ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ely JJ,Frels WI,Howell S,Izard MK,Keeling ME,Lee DR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short-statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especiall...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Formicola V,Frayer DW,Heller JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of researchers have hypothesized that the biomechanical forces associated with cultural cranial deformation can influence the formation of sutural ossicles. However, it is still difficult to make definitive conclusions about this relationship because the effects appear to be quite weak, and contradictory resu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wilczak CA,Ousley SD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size (stature and mass) estimates are integral to understanding the lifeways of past populations.Body size estimation of an archaeological skeletal sample can be problematic when the body size or proportions of the population are distinctive. One such population is that of the Holocene Later Stone Age (LSA) of so...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kurki HK,Ginter JK,Stock JT,Pfeiffer S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food sharing among nonkin-one of the most fascinating cooperative behaviors in humans-is not widespread in nonhuman primates. Over the past few years, a large body of work has investigated the contexts in which primates cooperate and share food with unrelated individuals. This work has successfully demonstrated that s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dubuc C,Hughes KD,Cascio J,Santos LR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dart's 1925 announcement of Australopithecus africanus (Dart: Nature 115 [1925] 195-199) was highly controversial, partly because of an interpretation of the Taung natural endocast that rested on an erroneous identification of the lambdoid suture as the lunate sulcus. Unpublished materials from the University of Witwa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Falk D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is thought to increase as a result of environmental perturbations during development. A number of studies involving measures of health and developmental stability other than FA have discussed the presumed increased buffering in females relative to males. But, there is little evidence in the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ozener B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appeals to synapomorphic features of the wrist and hand in African apes, early hominins, and modern humans as evidence of knuckle-walking ancestry for the hominin lineage rely on accurate interpretations of those features as adaptations to knuckle-walking locomotion. Because Gorilla, Pan, and Homo share a relatively c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Orr CM

更新日期：2005-11-01 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