Body size, locomotion, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in indriid primates.

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：:Frost (1987a) proposed an algorithm for estimating the number of missing osteons that correspond to observed osteon population densities (OPD). Such an algorithm should allow more accurate estimates of bone remodeling rates for skeletal remains for which in vivo labeling is not possible. In order to validate the algor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stout SD,Paine RR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone samples from a Middle Bronze Age (ca., 1600-1300 BC) site were prepared for histological analysis. Preliminary results suggested that components of bone marrow remained preserved. To verify these findings and optimize the sample preparation procedure, we conducted experiments varying the type of acid used to deca...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Setzer TJ,Sundell IB,Dibbley SK,Les C

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：:A method for estimating the general rate of nonpaternity in a population was validated using phenotype data on seven blood groups (A1A2BO, MNSs, Rh, Duffy, Lutheran, Kidd, and P) on 396 mother, child, and legal father trios from Nuevo León, Mexico. In all, 32 legal fathers were excluded as the possible father based on...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cerda-Flores RM,Barton SA,Marty-Gonzalez LF,Rivas F,Chakraborty R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is developed that treats migration rates among populations as a function of the geographic distance between them and the size of both sources and recipient population. Specifically, mij/mjj = a(Ni/Nj)pe-bd, where mij/mjj is the relative migration rate into population j from population i, Ni is the size of the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Relethford JH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is evidence for reduced fertility in Andean and Himalayan populations at higher altitudes, factors other than hypoxia may be primarily responsible. A valuable approach in the investigation of these fertility determinants is the use of salivary steroid assays. However, coca-leaf chewing--a ubiquitous pra...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vitzthum VJ,von Dornum M,Ellison PT

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of tooth wear among prehistoric and recent populations has frequently been concerned with the rate and pattern of wear over the dental arches. In this report we considered the question of tooth wear variation among collections of Australian Aboriginal crania recovered from several sites along the Murray Rive...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar S,Richards L,McKee J,Molnar I

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In placental mammals, pregnancy usually is associated with an increase in maternal androgens, which may significantly impact fetal growth and differentiation, and affect postnatal development and behavior. Owing to their slow life histories and challenging social conditions, determination of maternal androgens and pot...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fürtbauer I,Heistermann M,Schülke O,Ostner J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bone mineral content (BMC), bone width, and cross-sectional moment of inertia (CSMI) of 141 Alaskan Eskimo tibias were measured using photon absorptiometry. The effects of age and sex on the bones' structural properties were studied. It was found that in women, BMC decreased by 50% between the third and sixth deca...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Martin RB,Burr DB,Schaffler MB

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:It is a big challenge to diagnose the motives behind trepanations in prehistoric crania. Surgical-therapeutic attempts may be apparent by the presence of fractures, however, ritual or nonmedical motives are rarely supported by visible evidence in the bones. This article presents data on the trepanations of s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gresky J,Batieva E,Kitova A,Kalmykov A,Belinskiy A,Reinhold S,Berezina N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual dimorphism is a pervasive phenomenon among anthropoid primates. Comparative analyses over the past 30 years have greatly expanded our understanding of both variation in the expression of dimorphism among primates, and the underlying causes of sexual dimorphism. Dimorphism in body mass and canine tooth size is f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excavations at hearth levels at the Molare Shelter in 1985 yielded the mandible of a 3-4-year-old child. The associated lithic artifacts recovered with it are Mousterian. Its features, although quite archaic, are within the known range of variation of Neandertals. Four deciduous molars are still preserved in the mandi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mallegni F,Ronchitelli AT

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean fat cell diameter was determined from measurements of abdominal adipose cells, obtained during inguinal hernia repair, of 126 white and 95 black males ranging in age from 1 through 48 months of age. The mean diameters of black and white subjects did not differ significantly, suggesting that differences in fat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnston FE,Weston M,McKinney S,Coleman J,Pereira G,Rounds J

更新日期：1984-12-01 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：:We evaluate the hardness of foods consumed by sympatric Cercopithecus ascanius (redtail guenons) and Lophocebus albigena (grey-cheeked mangabeys), and consider how selection might operate to influence foraging adaptations. Since L. albigena has among the thickest dental enamel in extant primates and is commonly referr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lambert JE,Chapman CA,Wrangham RW,Conklin-Brittain NL

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:The adventus Saxonum is a crucial event in English protohistory. Scholars from a range of disciplines dispute the scale and demographic profile of the purported colonizing population. The 5th-7th century burial ground at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, is one of the few Anglian cemeteries where an associated settleme...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Montgomery J,Evans JA,Powlesland D,Roberts CA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A marked asymmetry was previously reported in the sacral alae and S1-L5 facets orientation of the Neandertal individual Regourdou 1. Here, we provide a detailed description and quantification of the morphology and degree of asymmetry of this sacrum. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Regourdou 1 was compared to a modern ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rmoutilová R,Gómez-Olivencia A,Brůžek J,Holliday T,Ledevin R,Couture-Veschambre C,Madelaine S,Džupa V,Velemínská J,Maureille B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of carious lesions were analyzed in the Classic period coastal Maya population of Xcambó, a salt production and administration center in northern Yucatan. To this end, the study investigated caries in the permanent dentitions of 163 adult skeletons, 23 from the Early Classic (AD 250-550) and 140 from the Late...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cucina A,Cantillo CP,Sosa TS,Tiesler V

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test is sometimes used to test seasonality in births or other annually cyclic phenomena. However, it is shown that the maximum deviation from expected (D) may differ by a factor of almost two if the cycle is initiated in different months. Thus, different results are possible from the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McCullough JM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neo-darwinian and population genetics theory assumes that the necessary and sufficient set of conditions for all genetic, therefore evolutionary, change has been identified. Punctuationalists have assumed the opposite and cite the fossil record as evidence for change too rapid to be explained in neo-darwinian theory. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Williams BJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the demographic correlates of paternity confidence, or men's assessment of the likelihood that they are the genetic father of a particular child. Evolutionary theory predicts that men will provide less parental investment for putative genetic offspring who are unlikely to be their actual offspring, but conf...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Anderson KG,Kaplan H,Lancaster JB

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) of Wamba, Zaire have an extremely high frequency of external abnormal traits. Out of 96 animals in a sample comprising all age and sex classes from two different natural groups, 46 individuals had at least one limb defect. The frequency of abnormalities was greater in males than in fema...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kano T

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult males in social groups often compete with other male group members for access to adult females. In some primate species, males also seek mating opportunities in neighboring social groups. Such extra-group fertilizations (EGFs) provide an additional source of variation in male fitness. This additional component o...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lawler RR

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to evaluate the use of quantitative methods of measuring variation in scalp hair fiber shape and pigmentation and carry out exploratory data analysis on a limited sample of individuals from diverse populations in order to inform future avenues of research for the evolution of modern human hai...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lasisi T,Ito S,Wakamatsu K,Shaw CN

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latex rubber brain endocasts of solo I, V, VI, X, and XI crania were prepared in order to determine accurate volumes by H2O-displacement and morphological description. The new volumes are not markedly different from previous estimates that had been done by mensuration formulae. The mean volume is 1,151 ml. The endocas...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Holloway RL

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00