No evidence for sex biases in milk macronutrients, energy, or breastfeeding frequency in a sample of Filipino mothers.

abstract：:A simple experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that variation in humidity causes expansion of bone and, thereby, affects measurements of dried, preserved skulls. The experiment consisted of subjecting ten macaque skulls to increased humidity for 24 hours. Measurements of nine skull dimensions taken immediate...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Albrecht GH

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:Evolutionary trends for dental reduction are presented for European Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic samples. The analysis demonstrates that the greatest decrease in tooth size occurs between the two divisions of the Upper Paleolithic, while little and insignificant change characterizes the Late Upper Paleolithic/Meso...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Frayer DW

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Differences in dental caries prevalence between males and females is considered a reflection of diet. However, recent syntheses argue that sex-specific variation in dental caries prevalence also reflects changes in the oral cavity attributable to variation in reproductive life histories. This study explores ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kubehl K,Temple DH

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：: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：:Bone remodeling variables in the rib were analyzed for a skeletal population of medieval antiquity (ca. A.D. 550-1450) from Kulubnarti, in Sudanese Nubia. The skeletal remains are naturally mummified and in an excellent state of preservation. The study sample consists of thin sections from the ribs of 80 individuals, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mulhern DM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often suggested that the frontal sinus morphology of no two individuals is alike, and that the configuration of the frontal sinus is as unique to an individual as his or her fingerprints. However, no empirical, quantitative testing of the uniqueness of frontal sinus outlines has ever been performed. Such testing...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Christensen AM

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Pliopithecinae and Crouzeliinae (Primates: Pliopithecidae) are distinguished dentally by the sharper crests, more compressed cusps, larger foveae, and narrower molars of the latter. Traditionally, such differences were qualitatively related to increased folivory in crouzeliines. This was subsequently disproved by micr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： DeMiguel D,Alba DM,Moyà-Solà S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations between season of birth and body size, morbidity, and mortality have been widely documented, but it is unclear whether different parts of the body are differentially sensitive, and if such effects persist through childhood. This may be relevant to understanding the relationship between early life environm...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pomeroy E,Wells JC,Stanojevic S,Miranda JJ,Cole TJ,Stock JT

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As evidence accumulates regarding the influence of hormones and stress-related conditions on maternal behavior, it becomes critical to better understand the relationship between physiological stress and the ability to cope with infants. Eight Japanese macaque females were observed 3 hr per week during the first 12 wee...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bardi M,Shimizu K,Barrett GM,Borgognini-Tarli SM,Huffman MA

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:Different lines of evidence suggest that trabecular bone architecture contains a functional signal related to an organism's locomotor behavior. An understanding of the interspecific and intraspecific variation in extant nonhuman primate trabecular structure is needed to evaluate its usefulness as a tool to reconstruct...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fajardo RJ,Ryan TM,Kappelman J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been argued that techniques for estimating adult age-at-death from cortical histology are deleteriously affected by sampling location. This study uses nine complete femoral midshaft cross-sections to test the effect of sampling site on measurement of a standard histological variable, percent remodeled bone. Cir...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pfeiffer S,Lazenby R,Chiang J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study of passive joint mobility in patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) showed that laboratory-caged animals had significantly greater mobility in most joints than age/sex matched free-ranging monkeys. Passive joint mobility on 27 of the same animals was measured 6 months after the caged animals were released...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Turnquist JE

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable rheumatologic disorder. It should be deleted as an identifier for oste...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:The higher primate scapula has been subject to many explanations of the putative "adaptive value" of its individual traits. However, the shift from the bone's position in above branch quadrupeds to its more posterolateral position in recent hominoids obviously required fundamental changes to its general form...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Selby MS,Lovejoy CO

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

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：:The aim of this study was to document variation of deciduous tooth formation and eruption. The material comprises 121 individuals of known or estimated age (using tooth length) from Spitalfields in London, and radiographs of 61 healthy living children aged 2-5 years. Other skeletal material from two medieval Scottish ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Liversidge HM,Molleson T

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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：: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:The tool-assisted extractive foraging capabilities of captive (zoo) and semi-captive (sanctuary) bonobo (Pan paniscus) groups were compared to each other and to those known in wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) cultures. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The bonobos were provided with natural raw materials and challenge...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Roffman I,Savage-Rumbaugh S,Rubert-Pugh E,Stadler A,Ronen A,Nevo E

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Dental microwear researchers consider exogenous grit or dust to be an important cause of microscopic wear on primate teeth. No study to date has examined the accumulation of such abrasives on foods eaten by primates in the forest. This investigation introduces a method to collect dust at various heights in the canopy....

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ungar PS,Teaford MF,Glander KE,Pastor RF

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomical effects of artificial cranial deformation on the face and the base have been subject to various metric approaches, including standard linear as well as finite element techniques, and have produced controversial results (Antón [1989] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 79:253-267; Kohn et al. [1993] Am. J. Phys. Ant...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Friess M,Baylac M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00