Revised age estimates of Australopithecus-bearing deposits at Sterkfontein, South Africa.

abstract：:Pliopithecid remains from the Spanish locality of Torrent de Febulines (Late Vallesian, MN 10), consisting of right and left mandibular fragments with partial tooth rows and an isolated P(3) probably belonging to the same individual, are described and assigned to Egarapithecus narcisoi gen. et sp. nov. (Pliopithecidae...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Moyà-Solà S,Köhler M,Alba DM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callitrichids use their tongue in various social, ecological, and hygienic contexts. Using a noninvasive measuring device, we obtained data on the operational tongue length (OTL) in seven species from the family Callitrichidae. OTL (defined as the maximum tongue extension into the device) varied significantly between ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Heymann EW,von der Lage F

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Nine human mandibular first premolars were examined to assess variation in external morphology and enamel structural organization within a tooth type. The relationship of enamel ultrastructure to gross dental morphology was also studied. The teeth were cut in the mesiodistal direction just lingual to the buccal cusp, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stern D,Skobe Z

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, dominance rank instability among male Lemur catta during mating was investigated. Also, data on agonism and sexual behavior across five consecutive mating seasons in a population of L. catta on St. Catherines Island, USA, were collected. Instances of male rank instability were categorized into three typ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Parga JA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of a study of the prevalence of nonsyndromic dental agenesis among a sample of 208 individuals (105 females, 103 males) between the ages of 15 and 29 years from a North American religious and genetic isolate, the Dariusleut Hutterites of Western Canada. Direct examination of dental casts, oral ex...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mahaney MC,Fujiwara TM,Morgan K

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:Uncertainties as to the nature and implications of osteoarthritis and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPPD) in primates were subject to critical review through examination of 153 prosimians and 1,250 Old World non-prosimian primates. Osteoarthritis, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, and infectious ar...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM,Woods RJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the appearance of the secondary ossification centers in the lower arms, wrists, lower legs, and ankles of a cross-sectional sample of 20 infant orangutans and chimpanzees (15 of known age). The number of tarsal and carpal centers is analyzed relative to the degree of M1 development and the weight o...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Winkler LA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histological aging study of femoral midshafts in a late Roman period sample from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, showed discrete fluorochrome labelling. The fluorochrome is yellow-green in colour and fluoresces at a wavelength of 525 nm. The labelling occurs at the mineralization fronts and is so distinct that several his...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cook M,Molto E,Anderson C

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thin mandibles and small incisors found in New World monkeys as compared with Old World monkeys suggest that there may be differences in craniofacial loading patterns between these two groups, particularly in levels of mandibular corpus twisting (Hylander, 1975, 1979a; Eaglen, 1984; Bouvier, 1986a,b). This study exami...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bouvier M,Tsang SM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are limited in their capacity to convert protein into energy. We present a hypothesis that a "bell" shaped thorax and a wide pelvis evolved in Neandertals, at least in part, as an adaptation to a high protein diet. A high protein diet created a need to house an enlarged liver and urinary system in a wider lower...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ben-Dor M,Gopher A,Barkai R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanical features of cortical bone and their changes with growth and adaptation to function plays an important role in our ability to interpret the morphology and evolution of craniofacial skeletons. We assessed the elastic properties of cortical bone of juvenile and adult baboon mandibles using ul...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wang Q,Ashley DW,Dechow PC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 582 individuals (1,164 chromosomes) from two African, eight African-derived South American, five South American Amerindian, and three Brazilian urban populations were studied at four variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) and two short tandem repeat (STR) hypervariable loci. These two sets of loci did not ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Da Silva WA Jr,Bortolini MC,Meyer D,Salzano FM,Elion J,Krishnamoorthy R,Schneider MP,De Guerra DC,Layrisse Z,Castellano HM,Weimer TD,Zago MA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new optical device Lipometer allows noninvasive, quick, and safe determination of the thickness of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) layers (in mm) at any site of the human body. The specification of 15 evenly distributed body sites enables the precise measurement of subcutaneous body fat distribution, so-called s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tafeit E,Möller R,Sudi K,Horejsi R,Berg A,Reibnegger G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1930s subadult hominin remains and Mousterian artifacts were discovered in the Teshik-Tash cave in South Uzbekistan. Since then, the majority of the scientific community has interpreted Teshik-Tash as a Neanderthal. However, some have considered aspects of the morphology of the Teshik-Tash skull to be more simi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gunz P,Bulygina E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The transition to an agricultural economy is often presumed to involve an increase in female fertility related to changes in weaning practice. In particular, the availability of staple crops as complementary foods is hypothesized to allow earlier weaning in agricultural populations. In this study, o...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： King CL,Halcrow SE,Millard AR,Gröcke DR,Standen VG,Portilla M,Arriaza BT

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research shows that a bacterial life form, Erysipelothrix insidiosa, can produce rheumatoid arthritis in deer, swine, and dogs, and that a number of animals, including man, birds, and fish, may be infected by the organism. Examination of the archaeological record suggests that both cultural and biological varia...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hudson C,Butler R,Sikes D

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We classified diversity in eight new complete mitochondrial genome sequences and 41 partial sequences from living Aboriginal Australians into five haplogroups. Haplogroup AuB belongs to global lineage M, and AuA, AuC, AuD, and AuE to N. Within N, we recognize subdivisions, assigning AuA to haplogroup S, AuD to haplogr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： van Holst Pellekaan SM,Ingman M,Roberts-Thomson J,Harding RM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human interactions with nonhuman primates vary tremendously, from daily cultural engagements and food commodities, to pet ownership and tourist encounters. These interactions provide opportunities for the exchange of pathogenic organisms (both zoonoses and anthroponoses). As exposures are not limited to areas where bu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Muehlenbein MP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy was a well-recognized and dreaded disease in medieval Europe (5th-15th century AD). It is reported to have reached Germany with the Roman invasion. A much larger fraction than previously assumed appears to have been affected by leprosy in the medieval period. This article estimates the frequency (i.e., the pre...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boldsen JL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of skeletal development frequently document populational incidences of bilateral asymmetry. Degenerative morphological skeletal changes, attributed to age related and irregular ossification, may also progress asymmetrically, either as the result of asymmetric biomechanical factors expressed over the lifespan, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Overbury RS,Cabo LL,Dirkmaat DC,Symes SA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is one in a series which explores the possibility of using the non-destructive CT technique to identify patterns in tooth enamel distribution and structure of hominid molars from Plio-Pleistocene sites in South Africa, notably Swartkrans, Sterkfontein, and Kromdraai. Whereas previous investigators have emph...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Macho GA,Thackeray JF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples of 683 unrelated male and female individuals of four Sardinian population samples (Sassari, Nuoro, Oristano and Cagliari) were typed for G 1 m (1,2,3,17), G 3 m (5,6,10,11,13,14,15,16,21,26), and Km (1). Phenotype, haplotype (Gm), and allele frequencies (Km), respectively, show a remarkable variability b...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Walter H,Matsumoto H,De Stefano GF

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Bone remodeling variables in the rib were analyzed for a skeletal population of medieval antiquity (ca. A.D. 550-1450) from Kulubnarti, in Sudanese Nubia. The skeletal remains are naturally mummified and in an excellent state of preservation. The study sample consists of thin sections from the ribs of 80 individuals, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mulhern DM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mexican Americans are a numerous and fast growing ethnic population in the United States. Yet little is known about their genetic structure. Since they are a hybrid, it is of interest to identify their parental populations and to estimate the relative contributions of these groups. This information is relevant to hist...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Long JC,Williams RC,McAuley JE,Medis R,Partel R,Tregellas WM,South SF,Rea AE,McCormick SB,Iwaniec U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of disparity between the lengths of the radii and ulnae of 177 Negro female skeletons of the Terry Collection was questioned. An error was found and corrections have been made in the relevant statistics and tables. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Trotter M,Gleser GC

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of dental disease among Bronze Age people of the Indus Valley Civilization are currently based on early and incomplete reports by non-specialists. This deficiency precludes accurate diachronic analysis of dental disease and its relationship with increasing agriculturalism in the Indian subcontinent. The objec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lukacs JR

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Stable isotope analysis has been used to investigate consumption of marine resources in a variety of terrestrial mammals, including humans, but not yet in extant nonhuman primates. We sought to test the efficacy of stable isotope analysis as a tool for such studies by comparing isotope- and observation-based...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lewis MC,West AG,O'Riain MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00