Deciduous enamel defects and caries susceptibility in a prehistoric Ohio population.

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：:Lack of independence of data points or the pooling fallacy has been suggested as a potential problem in the study of handedness in nonhuman primates, particularly as it relates to whether hand use responses should be recorded as individual events or bouts of activity. Here, I argue that there is no evidence that the c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hopkins WD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to identify the presence of degenerative spondylolisthesis in adult Native American skeletons recovered from prehistoric and historic Pueblo sites in New Mexico. The vertebral columns of 491 individuals that were complete enough to allow the necessary observations produced 64 cases, wit...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Merbs CF

更新日期：2001-12-01 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:Many studies on subadult sex estimation focus on elements that express sexually dimorphic features in adults. In contrast, diaphyseal dimensions have been shown to display sex-specific differences prior to adolescence. The current study evaluates the use of diaphyseal dimensions in subadult sex estimation. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stull KE,L'Abbé EN,Ousley SD

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Since its discovery in southeastern Uzbekistan in 1938, the Teshik-Tash child has been considered a Neandertal. Its affinity is important to studies of Late Pleistocene hominin growth and development as well as interpretations of the Central Asian Middle Paleolithic and the geographic distribution of Neandertals. A cl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Glantz M,Athreya S,Ritzman T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The growth of tooth dentin is incremental, so its formation represents a dietary record in early life. With archeological skeletons, applying sequential stable isotope analysis to the horizontal sections of tooth dentin has revealed weaning patterns and dietary changes that took place during childhood. Howev...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tsutaya T

更新日期：2020-12-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Stable isotope analysis has been used to investigate consumption of marine resources in a variety of terrestrial mammals, including humans, but not yet in extant nonhuman primates. We sought to test the efficacy of stable isotope analysis as a tool for such studies by comparing isotope- and observation-based...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lewis MC,West AG,O'Riain MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reassess previous hypotheses concerning dental size reduction of the posterior teeth during Pleistocene human evolution, current fossil dental evidence is examined. This evidence includes the large sample of hominid teeth found in recent excavations (1984-1993) in the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bermúdez de Castro JM,Nicolas ME

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being frugivorous, Cebus and Saimiri stand out among the New World primates of similar body size in being heavily dependent on animal matter for protein (faunivory). A detailed description of the morphology and behavior of the two genera is presented with the object of evaluating the interaction and res...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Janson CH,Boinski S

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：: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 limbic frontal cortex forms part of the neural substrate responsible for emotional reactions to social stimuli. Area 13 is one of the cortical areas long known to be part of the posterior orbitofrontal cortex in several monkey species, such as the macaque. Its presence nevertheless in the human brain has been uncl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Semendeferi K,Armstrong E,Schleicher A,Zilles K,Van Hoesen GW

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional morphogenetic fields of the human dentition were evaluated by means of factor analysis of dental dimensions taken from a series of human crania. When crown length, crown width and crown index were considered separately, factors emerged which could be identified with the tooth group fields. But a combin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lombardi AV

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the developmental changes leading to apomorphic features of human anatomy is longstanding. Although most research has focused on quantitative measures of size and shape, additional information may be available in the sequence of events in development, including aspects of phenotypic integration. I apply tw...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Blomquist GE

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study tests the effectiveness of entheseal robusticity (ER) as a potential predictor of adult age-at-death by applying multiple regression models to a large contemporary identified skeletal sample. MATERIALS AND METHODS:ER was recorded for 23 bilateral postcranial entheses on 481 adult individua...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Milella M,Belcastro MG,Mariotti V,Nikita E

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive cycles of 23 captive olive baboons were studied over two successive parturitions. Interbirth intervals of 450 days were reduced by 60% in comparison to wild baboons, and consisted of 145 days of postpartum amenorrhea, 3.5 cycles, and a gestation of 185 days. Dominance rank was found to be one signific...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Garcia C,Lee PC,Rosetta L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomic distribution of the Stafne static mandibular bone defect (SSBD) is extended with a description of a cavitation defect on the buccal ramus of the mandible. The anatomical placement of SSBD thus correlates precisely with the submandibular and parotid salivary glands, and gives further evidence that an incre...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shields ED

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：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 histological method developed by Stout and Paine ([1992] Aln. J. Phys. Antropol. 87:111-115) for estimating age at death using the clavicle is tested on a known age independent sample from a nineteenth century cemetery near Spitalfriedhof St. Johann in Basel, Switzerland. The mean absolute difference between repor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stout SD,Porro MA,Perotti B

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field observations of bipedal posture and locomotion in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can serve as key evidence for reconstructing the likely origins of bipedalism in the last prehominid human ancestor. This paper reports on a sample of bipedal bouts, recorded ad libitum, in wild chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrabl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stanford CB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing human from non-human bone fragments is usually accomplished by observation of gross morphology. When macroscopic analysis is insufficient, histological approaches can be applied. Microscopic features, like plexiform bone or osteon banding, are characteristic of non-humans. In the absence of such feature...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dominguez VM,Crowder CM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs) may have lived in close proximity in the Near East region during Middle Paleolithic times. Although functional morphological analyses suggest a marked behavioral contrast between these two human groups, new dental micro- and macro-wear studies, together with new archa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fiorenza L,Kullmer O

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lengths within the cranial base and vault were measured in cephalometric radiographs of 220 boys and 177 girls ranging in age from 0 to 15 years; all these children are participants in The Fels Longitudinal Growth Study. The present study is based on mixed longitudinal data derived from 1640 radiographs for boys and 1...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ohtsuki F,Mukherjee D,Lewis AB,Roche AF

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New World monkeys vary considerably in the manner and degree to which they use their tails. There ought to arise a corresponding variation in the stresses on caudal vertebrae. Consequently, different behavior types will have contrasting caudal morphologies. This study investigates caudal morphology of several New Worl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： German RZ

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial reshaping of the cranial vault has been practiced by many human groups and provides a natural experiment in which the relationships of neurocranial, cranial base, and facial growth can be investigated. We test the hypothesis that fronto-occipital artificial reshaping of the neurocranial vault results in spe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cheverud JM,Kohn LA,Konigsberg LW,Leigh SR

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty weanling 6-month-old male squirrel monkeys were allotted to the following treatments: 1) first control animals were killed at weaning; 2) second control animals were killed when 24 months old; and 3) malnourished animals were fed on a low-protein diet and killed at age 24 months. Lateral and vertical teleradiog...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pucciarelli HM,Dressino V,Niveiro MH

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00