Technical note: estimating sex using cervical canine odontometrics: a test using a known sex sample.

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：: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：:Atypical wear and oral lesions were studied in the dental remains from the Middle Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture site Ajvide on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Teeth (n = 764) from 17 males and 11 females were examined microscopically to document unusual wear, assess wear patterns and oral lesions as evidence ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As shown in 91 embryos and fetuses in the 41-235 mm crownrump length, brachymesophalangia-5 may be identified in prenatal time. Although the ratios involving different combinations of length of mid-5 relative to other segments yield different frequencies of BMP-5, the short middle segment of the little finger is alrea...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Garn SM,Babler WJ,Burdi AR

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the correlations between the languages spoken by human populations and the genes carried by the members of those populations have been limited by the small amount of genetic markers available and by approximations in the treatment of linguistic data. In this study we analyzed a large collection of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belle EM,Barbujani G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pair-bonding in the genus Papio seems to be the result of fusion of troops as well as fission. When troop segments regularly split and join again, males who permanently maintain exclusive access to a few females may have an advantage over males who compete for all females who are in estrus. When two or more troops reg...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Anderson CM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotope variations were studied in necropolises of the early (6th to 7th century CE) and central (10th to 11th century CE) medieval period located in Fruili-Venezia Giulia (Northeastern Italy). The two periods each shortly followed two great barbarian invasions that changed the politics and economy of Italy: the arriv...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Iacumin P,Galli E,Cavalli F,Cecere L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:International differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality, and studies on Japanese migrants to the United States, point to the importance of environmental factors, including diet and nutrition, in the etiology of breast cancer. Some studies have suggested that dietary patterns in early life are important to t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Micozzi MS

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Early American crania show a different morphological pattern from the one shared by late Native Americans. Although the origin of the diachronic morphological diversity seen on the continents is still debated, the distinct morphology of early Americans is well documented and widely dispersed. This morphology has been ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hubbe M,Harvati K,Neves W

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean cranial capacities of 50 male and 50 female Zulu crania were found to be 1373.3 +/- 107.4 ml for males and 1251.2 +/- 101.1 ml for females (means +/- SD). The male value resembles that of other Negro groups, while the female value is somewhat higher than the value for Negro crania as a whole. The index of sex...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ricklan DE,Tobias PV

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of the maxillary complex of 36 rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively during four defined stages of postnatal development (i.e., infant, juvenile, adolescent, young adult). At each stage, growth was observed during a 24 week period. Since some animals were observed dur...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McNamara JA Jr,Riolo ML,Enlow DH

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Factors involved in the spread of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the largely Melanesian population (N = 909) of Graciosa Bay, Ndeni, are examined. Based upon cultural information from Ndeni and ways in which HBV is spread in other populations, certain practices and interactions, predicted as effective routes of HBV infect...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Langendorfer A,Davenport W,London WT,Blumberg BS,Mazzur S

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The appearance of external auditory exostoses archaeologically has been attributed to aquatic activities in middle latitudes. However, recent clinical research implicates low sea surface temperatures, especially below a threshold of 19°C, as a stronger predictor of ear exostosis development than latitude. He...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Smith-Guzmán NE,Cooke RG

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular and morphological surveys suggest that mangabeys do not represent a monophyletic group. Specifically, Cercocebus is the sister taxon of Mandrillus, whereas Lophocebus forms an unresolved trichotomy with Papio and Theropithecus. The Cercocebus-Mandrillus clade is characterized by skeletal and dental ad...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Daegling DJ,McGraw WS

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:The purpose of this paper is to document and interpret urban-rural differences in mortality in the past. To this end, we used data on mortality in Wielkopolska, Poland, in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The data on mortality in rural areas (N = 1,173,910 deceased), small towns (N = 573,903 ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Budnik A,Liczbińska G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "Kleiber relationship" describes the interspecific allometry between body size and metabolism. Like other allometric relationships, the Kleiber relationship not only summarizes scaling effects across species but also provides a standard by which species can be compared. One well-noted deviation from the Kleiber re...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kurland JA,Pearson JD

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we evaluate the causes of differential skeletal preservation in the Windover Pond skeletal series (8BR246). We collected data on sex and age for approximately 110 individuals, and calculated a preservation score for each individual based on the presence of 80 skeletal landmarks. Our research questions e...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stojanowski CM,Seidemann RM,Doran GH

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Warao Indian village of Jobure has two modes for height within its adult male population. One mode is at 158 cm and the second occurs at 169 cm. Mean height for adult males and females for this village is significantly higher (alpha less than or equal to 0.05) than for the other Warao villages studied. Examination...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fleischman ML

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of variation in percent of oxygen saturation of arterial hemoglobin (SaO2) among healthy individuals at a given high altitude indicates differences in physiological hypoxemia despite uniform ambient hypoxic stress. In populations native to the Tibetan plateau, a significant portion of the variance is attributa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Beall CM,Almasy LA,Blangero J,Williams-Blangero S,Brittenham GM,Strohl KP,Decker MJ,Vargas E,Villena M,Soria R,Alarcon AM,Gonzales C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This research theoretically models and empirically records symphyseal surface strain during in vitro human mandibular wishboning (lateral transverse bending) in order to test one aspect of the hypothesis that the chin is an adaptive response to masticatory stresses. From a perspective of optimality, three qu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pampush JD,Daegling DJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this research was to study intra- and interspecific variability in mineral density in the femoral diaphysis of nonhuman primates. Four hundred five sections were taken from five sites along the femoral diaphysis of 34 macaques (Macaca sp.), 24 squirrel monkeys (Saimirisciureus), and 23 tamarins (Saguinu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Burr DB

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：:Bone mass, as assessed by measurements of total subperiosteal diameter and medullary width of the second metacarpal bone on hand-wrist radiographs, was evaluated for 31 Guamanian patients (15 males, 16 females) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 67 patients (39 males, 28 females) with parkinsonism-dementia (PD)...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Garruto RM,Plato CC,Yanagihara R,Fox K,Dutt J,Gajdusek DC,Tobin J

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies of the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ(13) C and δ(15) N) of modern tissues with a fast turnover, such as hair and fingernails, have established the relationship between these values in mothers and their infants during breastfeeding and weaning. Using collagen from high-resolution dentin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Beaumont J,Montgomery J,Buckberry J,Jay M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters of Malécot's isolation-by-distance model are estimated for biological (anthropometric head and body dimensions, morphometric dimensions of metacarpal bones, quantitative and qualitative dermatoglyphic traits, and physiological/cardiorespiratory/variables) and linguistic distances and migrational kinship on ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rudan P,Simić D,Smolej-Narancić N,Bennett LA,Janićijević B,Jovanović V,Lethbridge MF,Milicić J,Roberts DF,Sujoldzić A

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin coloration in indigenous peoples is strongly related to levels of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). In this study, the relationships of skin reflectance to seasonal UVR levels and other environmental variables were investigated, with the aim of determining which variables contributed most significantly to skin reflect...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Chaplin G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present study are to 1) determine and describe levels of dental fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in a highly endogamous human group; 2) evaluate the effects of various FA measures on perceived FA levels and their interrelationships; 3) study the connections between dental variables (tooth size, class, positi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hershkovitz I,Livshits G,Moskona D,Arensburg B,Kobyliansky E

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00