Ancient DNA in anthropology: methods, applications, and ethics.

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：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：:Recognition of disease in the archeologic record is facilitated by characterization of the skeletal impact of documented (in life) disease. The present study describes the osteological manifestations of leukemia as identified in the skeletons of two individuals diagnosed during life: a 3-year-old black girl with acute...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM,Hershkovitz I,Dutour O,Latimer B,Rothschild C,Jellema LM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach, computational shape analysis (CSA), is presented here which utilizes a Fourier-wavelet representation to numerically describe shape features of biological forms. Two elements are involved: 1) elliptical Fourier functions (EFFs), to provide estimates of global aspects, and 2) continuous wavelet transforms ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lestrel PE,Cesar RM Jr,Takahashi O,Kanazawa E

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：: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：:Distinguishing human from non-human bone fragments is usually accomplished by observation of gross morphology. When macroscopic analysis is insufficient, histological approaches can be applied. Microscopic features, like plexiform bone or osteon banding, are characteristic of non-humans. In the absence of such feature...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dominguez VM,Crowder CM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body proportions and tissue composition (e.g., relative contributions of muscle, skin, bone, and adipose to total body mass) were determined through dissection of four adult captive lowland gorillas. The relative contribution of bone varies little among the four animals (10.2-13.4%) despite considerable range in body ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zihlman AL,McFarland RK

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the permanent human canine tooth is one of the few sexually dimorphic features to be present in childhood and as such offers the opportunity to assist in the identification of sex in remains where no other appropriate criteria exist, such as in subadults. However, canine odontometrics are often associated ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hassett B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of several associated body parts of early hominids whose taxonomic identity is known inspires this study of body size and proportions in early hominids. The approach consists of finding the relationship between various measures of skeletal size and body mass in modern ape and human specimens of known bod...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McHenry HM

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:If predictable, ecogeographic patterning in body size and proportions of human populations can provide valuable information regarding human biology, adaptation to local environments, migration histories, and health, now and in the past. This paper evaluates the assumption that small-bodied Later Stone Age (LSA) forage...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

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

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 dental casts taken of Aboriginal people resident at Yuendumu, Central Australia, between 1950-1970 preserve a unique historical record of defects of the dental enamel (DDEs) among people born from 1890-1960 (n = 377). These data are used, in comparison with precontact data, to trace the chronological changes in ch...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Littleton J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history theory predicts a trade-off between immunostimulation and growth. Using a cross-sectional study design, this study aims to test the hypothesis that C-reactive protein (CRP) is negatively associated with height-for-age z-scores (HAZ scores) and BMI-for-age z-scores (BAZ scores) among 6- to 19-year olds (N ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Konishi S,Parajuli RP,Takane E,Maharjan M,Tachibana K,Jiang HW,Pahari K,Inoue Y,Umezaki M,Watanabe C

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study are to describe genetic correlations between dental dimensions in a platyrrhine primate, to assess whether the brown-mantled tamarin dentition exhibits genetic modularity by tooth type, and to discuss the relationship between body size reduction and the genetic architecture of de...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hardin AM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of dental health status of ancient Southern Peru, 101 skeletal remains were studied from five cultures: Paracas, Nazca, Tiahuanaco, Ica, and Inca. The Paracas and Ica cultures exhibited more missing antemortem teeth per mandible than the other cultures. Frequency of missing one or more third molars was les...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Elzay RP,Allison MJ,Pezzia A

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:Form can be viewed as a combination of size and shape. Shape refers to the boundary outline independently from its orientation, relation to reference planes, and dimension (or size). Shape and its changes could be quantified by mathematical methods such as the Fourier series. In this investigation, Fourier analysis ha...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ferrario VF,Sforza C,Tartaglia GM,Colombo A,Serrao G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reassess previous hypotheses concerning dental size reduction of the posterior teeth during Pleistocene human evolution, current fossil dental evidence is examined. This evidence includes the large sample of hominid teeth found in recent excavations (1984-1993) in the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bermúdez de Castro JM,Nicolas ME

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) trapezium models from Homo sapiens, Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, Australopithecus afarensis (A.L.333-80), and Homo habilis (O.H.7-NNQ) were acquired through laser digitizing. Least-square planes were generated for each articular surface, and the angles between the planes were compared. Each...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tocheri MW,Marzke MW,Liu D,Bae M,Jones GP,Williams RC,Razdan A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Riparian or gallery forests are critical habitats for numerous plants and animals today. Paleoanthropologically, reliance on such habitats informs behavioral and ecological reconstructions; for example, gallery forest habitats likely played a critical role in the transition from ape to hominin in the early P...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hamilton M,Nelson SV,Fernandez DP,Hunt KD

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Age-dependent cortical bone loss in adult females from a skeletal assemblage from 3rd-4th century AD England was studied using metacarpal radiogrammetry. Results showed reduced peak cortical bone thickness compared with modern subjects, and the magnitude of cortical bone loss in older females compared with their young...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mays SA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of unexpectedly ancient human remains has fuelled interest about the first dispersion of Homo outside Africa. The Dmanisi mandible is perhaps one of the most interesting findings, as it supposedly represents one of the oldest hominids outside of Africa. Recently, different interpretations have bee...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rosas A,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued in death, resulting in bioarchaeological marginalization, as was the case of the monastics excavated ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Judd MA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We tested whether patterns of intraspecific variation in catarrhine vertebral shape are consistent with developmental or functional predictions. Intraspecific variation was compared across column regions, morphological features, and species. Transitional regions and later ossifying morphological features wer...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shapiro LJ,Kemp AD

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:New data were obtained on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Guahibo from Venezuela, a group so far not studied using molecular data. A population sample (n = 59) was analyzed for mtDNA variation in two control-region hypervariable segments (HV1 and HV2) by sequencing. The presence or absence of a 9-bp polymorphism in the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vona G,Falchi A,Moral P,Calò CM,Varesi L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00