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abstract：:Methods for estimating body mass from the human skeleton are often required for research in biological or forensic anthropology. There are currently only two methods for estimating body mass in subadults: the width of the distal femur metaphysis is useful for individuals 1-12 years of age and the femoral head is usefu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Robbins G,Sciulli PW,Blatt SH

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Predation is proposed to be one of the most important factors influencing the evolution of mammalian societies. Although predation risk is thought to influence both the behavior and grouping patterns of most diurnal primates, evidence supporting this hypothesis is still limited. The spatial and temporal patterns of mi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Link A,Di Fiore A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Finnish gene pool derives primarily from a relatively homogeneous Finno-Ugric population established during the Iron Age (100 B.C.-800 A.D.) in the southwest and southeast of Finland. Gene flow from Sweden to the southwest coastal areas, dating from prehistoric times, as well as the patterns of settlement and migr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Workman PL,Mielke JH,Nevanlinna HR

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of specimens extending from fossil material through recent vertebrates including man there occurs a gradual phylogenetic increase in the degree of humeral torsion. A further (ontogenetic) torsion is superimposed upon the phylogenetic one in man which increases from birth until the proximal epiphysial carti...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Krahl VE

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in blood serum as well as free testosterone in saliva were determined by radioimmunoassay in 110 healthy young men. The results were compared with the development of terminal hair on the trunk and limbs, with the disposition to balding and with the disposition to acne. No sig...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Knussmann R,Christiansen K,Kannmacher J

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Population genetic studies in Saudi Arabia are performed for EsD, GPT, AcP, ADA, AK, 6-PGD, PGM, C3, Tf, Hp, Gc, Pi, Bf, Hb, ABO-blood groups and Rh-factor, level of the third component of complement and immunoglobulins. The data are compared with reported frequencies in European and African populations. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Goedde HW,Benkmann HG,Agarwal DP,Hirth L,Bienzle U,Dietrich M,Hoppe HH,Orlowski J,Kohne E,Kleihauer E

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses data resampling to test the null hypothesis that the degree of variation in the cranial capacity of the Dmanisi hominid sample is within the range variation of a single species. The statistical significance of the variation in the Dmanisi sample is examined using simulated distributions based on compar...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lee SH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous works on the inheritance of dental traits have traditionally followed Fisher's model for family data under the assumption that phenotypic similarity between relatives is due solely to genetic factors. This study uses recent causal models that incorporate the contribution of nonrandom environmental sources of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Potter RH,Rice JP,Dahlberg AA,Dahlberg T

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：:Multivariate and cluster analyses of human skeletal remains of seven regional groups and nine individual sites and periods reveal different patterns of relationships for the sexes. This complex pattern of morphological affinities probably depends on differential demographic features. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rathbun TA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dermatoglyphic methodology the system of gross classification of digital pattern types needs modifications. More attention should be focussed on the study of minute morphological variations among pattern types in order to understand fully the genetic mechanisms involved in pattern variations. A systematic classif...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bhanu BV

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between diarrheal diseases and growth increments in total body length and weight was investigated in 716 rural Ladino Gautemalan children. Data on diarrheal diseases were provided by the mothers through retrospective surveys carried out at 14-day intervals. Increments in length and weight, semestral f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Martorell R,Yarbrough C,Lechtig A,Habicht JP,Klein RE

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of water consumption by past human populations are rarely considered, yet drinking behavior is socially mediated and access to water sources is often socially controlled. Oxygen isotope analysis of archeological human remains is commonly used to identify migrants in the archeological record, but it can also b...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lightfoot E,Slaus M,O'Connell TC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of discovery and interpretation of primate footprints at the site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania is reviewed. An analysis of the geological context of these tracks is provided. The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum. Comparison of t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： White TD,Suwa G

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact that "Romanization" and the development of urban centers had on the health of the Romano-British population is little understood. A re-examination of the skeletal remains of 364 nonadults from the civitas capital at Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset was carried out to measure the health of the childre...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lewis ME

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 12th and 13th centuries thousands of people moved from Europe to the Middle East to fight, undertake pilgrimage, or settle and make a new life. The aim of this research is to investigate two populations from the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, by determining who was born in Europe and who came from the Middl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mitchell PD,Millard AR

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiographic studies have reported persistent right ventricle predominance in high altitude children as an adaptive response. No information was provided on ethnicity and environmental factors in those studies. We assessed the electrocardiographic characteristics in healthy high altitude children with mixed an...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huicho L,Niermeyer S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparing long-bone cross-sectional geometric properties between individuals, percentages of bone length are often used to identify equivalent locations along the diaphysis. In fragmentary specimens where bone lengths cannot be measured, however, these locations must be estimated more indirectly. In this study, we ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sládek V,Berner M,Galeta P,Friedl L,Kudrnová S

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:This paper reports measurements of weight and recumbent length for a cross-sectional sample of 149 Shipibo infants and children between birth and 35.99 months of age from eight villages in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. The Shipibo are an Amerindian population experiencing a period of local environmental disruption and ra...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hodge LG,Dufour DL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the relatively large size of anthropoid incisors in relation to the remainder of the dental arcade, and their prominent role in the preprocessing of food prior to ingestion, comparatively little is known about the functional morphology of anthropoid incisor shape and crown curvature. The relationship between i...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Deane A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Castel di Guido site, with an estimated age of approximately 300,000 years, has yielded abundant animal remains, Acheulian stone and bone bifaces, and small tools. On the surface of the original deposit, turned over by agricultural activities, fragments of human remains were discovered between 1980 and 1986, inclu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mallegni F,Radmilli AM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines social and environmental influences on the development of hypertension in a sample of 568 adults (290 men; 278 women) aged 20 years and older from Dakar, Senegal. We test the hypothesis that more recent immigrants to the city of Dakar will have lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Duboz P,Macia E,Chapuis-Lucciani N,Boëtsch G,Gueye L

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of structured and repetitive sounds by striking objects is a behavior found not only in humans, but also in a variety of animal species, including chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). In this study we examined individual and social factors that may influence the frequency with which individuals engage in drum...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Babiszewska M,Schel AM,Wilke C,Slocombe KE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We documented the spacing and distribution of perikymata on the buccal enamel surface of fossil hominin anterior teeth with reference to a sample of modern human and modern great ape teeth. A sample of 27 anterior teeth attributed to Australopithecus (5 to A. afarensis, 22 to A. africanus) and of 33 attributed to Para...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dean MC,Reid DJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Central African small-scale foragers subsist primarily on hunting game activities and wild plant-food gathering. Starch-rich tubers are underground storage organs (USOs) and staple food resources in savanna and tropical rainforests. However, little is known about the effect of USO consumption on tooth wear d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Romero A,Ramirez-Rozzi FV,Cuesta-Torralvo E,Pérez-Pérez A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00