Inbreeding effects on bilateral asymmetry of dermatoglyphic patterns.

abstract：:A very limiting factor for paleoanthropological studies is the poor state of preservation of the human fossil record, where fragmentation and deformation are considered normal. Although anatomical information can still be gathered from a distorted fossil, such specimens must typically be excluded from advanced morphol...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Benazzi S,Gruppioni G,Strait DS,Hublin JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paget's disease has been ascribed several times to specimens of archeological bone but, in the absence of microscopic examination, the evidence remains insubstantial. Suspected metabolic bone disease is described here in the archeological remains of a skeleton from a 16th century burial ground at Wells Cathedral, Engl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Aaron JE,Rogers J,Kanis JA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent biomechanical analyses examining the feeding adaptations of early hominins have yielded results consistent with the hypothesis that hard foods exerted a selection pressure that influenced the evolution of australopith morphology. However, this hypothesis appears inconsistent with recent reconstructions of early...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Strait DS,Constantino P,Lucas PW,Richmond BG,Spencer MA,Dechow PC,Ross CF,Grosse IR,Wright BW,Wood BA,Weber GW,Wang Q,Byron C,Slice DE,Chalk J,Smith AL,Smith LC,Wood S,Berthaume M,Benazzi S,Dzialo C,Tamvada K,

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently spatial autocorrelation has been employed to infer microevolutionary processes from patterns of genetic variation. In theory, different processes should show characteristic signature correlograms; e.g., clinal selection should produce correlograms decreasing from positive to negative autocorrelation, whereas ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fix AG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stature and the pattern of body proportions were investigated in a series of six time-successive Egyptian populations in order to investigate the biological effects on human growth of the development and intensification of agriculture, and the formation of state-level social organization. Univariate analyses of varian...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zakrzewski SR

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the factors affecting growth and psychological development of over 100 infants from birth to age 6 months in the Embu region of Kenya. The analysis was divided into four parts. First, infants' birth weight, and length and head circumference as measured few days...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bhargava A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is thought to increase as a result of environmental perturbations during development. A number of studies involving measures of health and developmental stability other than FA have discussed the presumed increased buffering in females relative to males. But, there is little evidence in the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ozener B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevailing research design for studying infant sleep erroneously assumes the species-wide normalcy of solitary nocturnal sleep rather than a social sleeping environment. In fact, current clinical perspectives on infant sleep, which are based exclusively on studies of solitary sleeping infants, may partly reflect c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McKenna JJ,Mosko S,Dungy C,McAninch J

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The use of dental metrics in phylogenetic reconstructions of fossil primates assumes variation in tooth size is highly heritable. Quantitative genetic studies in humans and baboons have estimated high heritabilities for dental traits, providing a preliminary view of the variability of dental trait heritabili...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hardin AM

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Accurate age estimates are foundational for bioarchaeological research, yet the ability to accurately age older adult skeletons remains elusive. This study uses a new version of pulp/tooth area calculations to investigate chronological age of older archaeological individuals. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Pulp/toot...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： D'Ortenzio L,Prowse T,Inskip M,Kahlon B,Brickley M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of precoccygeal vertebrae (PCV) are compared in Southern African Negroes, Bushman (San) and American Negroes. The S.A. Negro and San males have an exceptionally high frequency of an increased total PCV number whilst the frequencies are significantly lower in a combined Caucasoid sample and the Mongoloid sa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： de Beer Kaufman P

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All current standardized methods of age determination using the os pubis were tested by blind assessment of a skeletal sample with documented ages (from the Todd collection; N = 96). No demographic data (sex, age, race, age composition) were known to the assessors prior to completion of the test. Results showed the To...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Meindl RS,Lovejoy CO,Mensforth RP,Walker RA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we develop a model that examines fertility and childhood mortality patterns and their relationship to environmental variables. Interactions among environmental variables can account for different fertility patterns and different mixes of these variables can produce similar patterns of fertility. Our mode...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pennington R,Harpending H

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vertical clinging and climbing have been integral to hypotheses about primate origins, yet little is known about how an animal with nails instead of claws resists gravity while on large, vertical, and cylindrical substrates. Here we test models of how force is applied to maintain posture, predicting (1) the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnson LE,Hanna J,Schmitt D

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive central fat in children and adolescents is a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. This study aimed to compare the body fat distribution patterns of children and adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria with international reference standards. Five hundred seventy children aged 5 to 19 years were se...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Senbanjo IO,Oshikoya KA,Olutekunbi OA,Njokanma OF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dramatic changes in cranial capacity have characterized human evolution. Important evolutionary hypotheses, such as the spatial packing hypothesis, assert that increases in relative brain size (encephalization) have caused alterations to the modern human skull, resulting in a suite of traits unique among extant primat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lesciotto KM,Richtsmeier JT

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The Yakuts are a Turkic-speaking population from northeastern Siberia who are believed to have originated from ancient Turkic populations in South Siberia, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence. In order to better understand Yakut origins, we modeled 25 demographic scenarios and tested by coalescent sim...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zlojutro M,Tarskaia LA,Sorensen M,Snodgrass JJ,Leonard WR,Crawford MH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a three-dimensional whole-body musculoskeletal model of the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) based on computed tomography and dissection of a cadaver. The skeleton was modeled as a chain of 20 bone segments connected by joints. Joint centers and rotational axes were estimated by joint morphology based ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ogihara N,Makishima H,Aoi S,Sugimoto Y,Tsuchiya K,Nakatsukasa M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The differences in trace element concentrations among 19 different bone elements procured from 10 archaeologically derived human skeletons have been investigated. The 10 individuals are dated archaeologically and some by radiocarbon dating to the medieval and post-medieval period, an interval from ca. AD 115...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lund Rasmussen K,Skytte L,D'imporzano P,Orla Thomsen P,Søvsø M,Lier Boldsen J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fingers in the adult human hand differ in length and in distal extent. The literature agrees that in the clear majority of males, the distal extent of the ring finger tends to be relatively greater (using the middle finger as standard) than the index finger. However, the results for females vary considerably, with...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Peters M,Mackenzie K,Bryden P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low brachial and crural indices of the European Neandertals have long been considered indicative of cold adaptation. Recent work has documented lower limb/trunk ratios and deeper chests (anterior-posterior diameter) in European Neandertals than among their successors. The present study uses variables reflective of...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Holliday TW

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two threshold models, a single locus model, and two combined models are fitted to data on familial incidence of bipolar affective disorder in 194 nuclear families ascertained through a bipolar proband. The relative fit of alternative transmission models is tested by a likelihood ratio chi-square with the degrees of fr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： O'Rourke DH,McGuffin P,Reich T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allometric relationships between incisor size and body size were determined for 26 species of New World primates. While previous studies have suggested that the incisors of Old World primates, and anthropoids in general, scale isometrically with body size, the data presented here indicate a negative allometric relatio...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Eaglen RH

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：:Repetitive linear enamel hypoplasia (rLEH) is often observed in recent large-bodied apes from Africa and Asia as well as Mid- to Late Miocene sites from Spain to China. The ubiquity and periodicity of rLEH are not understood. Its potential as an ontogenetic marker of developmental stress in threatened species (as well...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Skinner MF,Hopwood D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The name "Wampanoag" means "Eastern People" or "People of the First Light" in the local dialect of the Algonquian language. Once extensively populating the coastal lands and neighboring islands of the eastern United States, the Wampanoag people now consist of two federally recognized tribes, the Aquinnah and Mashpee, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zhadanov SI,Dulik MC,Markley M,Jennings GW,Gaieski JB,Elias G,Schurr TG,Genographic Project Consortium.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Depicting past epidemics currently relies on DNA-based detection of pathogens, an approach limited to pathogens with well-preserved DNA sequences. We used paleoserology as a complementary approach detecting specific antibodies under a mini line-blot format including positive and negative control antigens. M...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Oumarou Hama H,Barbieri R,Guirou J,Chenal T,Mayer A,Ardagna Y,Signoli M,Aboudharam G,Raoult D,Drancourt M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Great apes show considerable diversity in socioecology and life history, but knowledge of their physical growth in natural settings is scarce. We characterized linear body size growth in wild mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, a population distinguished by its extreme folivory and accele...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Galbany J,Abavandimwe D,Vakiener M,Eckardt W,Mudakikwa A,Ndagijimana F,Stoinski TS,McFarlin SC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00