Biomechanics of cross-sectional size and shape in the hominoid mandibular corpus.

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：:As a part of a research project on molecular variation in Central Africa, we have analyzed 10 microsatellites (CD4, CSFO, D3S1358, D18S51, D21S11, F13A1, FES, TH01, TPOX, and VWA) in the Bamileke and Ewondo from Cameroon and the Sanga and Mbenzele Pygmies from the Central African Republic (a total of 390 chromosomes)....

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Destro-Bisol G,Boschi I,Caglià A,Tofanelli S,Pascali V,Paoli G,Spedini G

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography allows cross-sectional imaging of anthropological as well as clinical subjects. Recently, technical innovations have made three-dimensional reconstruction of these images feasible. We performed two-dimensional and three-dimensional computed tomography of a Late Period Egyptian mummy to reexamine fi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pickering RB,Conces DJ Jr,Braunstein EM,Yurco F

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scarcity of information on control data of toe and plantar dermatoglyphics led us to undertake this study of adult American Caucasians. Toe and sole prints of 168 male and 83 female participants of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging were analyzed. Toe pattern frequencies demonstrate that fibular loops are t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fox KM,Plato CC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We present a new distance-based exponential regression approach based on published histological data to refine the objectivity, accuracy, and precision of age estimates of LEH defect formation on the anterior dentition. METHODS:Published histological data of anterior tooth crown growth for two samples (nort...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cares Henriquez A,Oxenham MF

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body weight and ten body segment measurements were collected from 367 wild-trapped vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) in central and southern Kenya. The animals represent between 70 and 95% of the animals in each of 30 troops at four geographical locations separated by 80 to 380 km. The capture sites differed in ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Turner TR,Anapol F,Jolly CJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy demands of pregnancy and lactation together with the accumulation of stored fat in human females during development suggest that a critical level of fat may be required for menarche; but multivariate analyses have supported the alternative view that skeletal growth is the main factor. However, significant d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lassek WD,Gaulin SJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are limited in their capacity to convert protein into energy. We present a hypothesis that a "bell" shaped thorax and a wide pelvis evolved in Neandertals, at least in part, as an adaptation to a high protein diet. A high protein diet created a need to house an enlarged liver and urinary system in a wider lower...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ben-Dor M,Gopher A,Barkai R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the permanent human canine tooth is one of the few sexually dimorphic features to be present in childhood and as such offers the opportunity to assist in the identification of sex in remains where no other appropriate criteria exist, such as in subadults. However, canine odontometrics are often associated ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hassett B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scratches found on the Engis 2 cranium have been described as perimortem and interpreted as intentional scalping marks by Russell and LeMort (Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 69:317-323, 1986). These marks are described and compared to damage on other fossil hominids. The Engis marks have been misinterpreted. These marks are s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： White TD,Toth N

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines humeral cross-sectional properties in two different samples of later medieval date: a group of blade-injured males from the sites of Towton, North Yorkshire, and Fishergate in the City of York, England, and a comparative group of nonblade-injured males also from the site of Fishergate in York. CT i...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rhodes JA,Knüsel CJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large body size has been traditionally seen as the primary dietary adaptation of gorillas, facilitating their consumption of fibrous foods (Schaller ¿1963 The Mountain Gorilla; Watts ¿1990 Int. J. Primatol. 11:21-45). Nevertheless, recent research has emphasized frugivory among western lowland gorillas, as well as the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Remis MJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is evidence for reduced fertility in Andean and Himalayan populations at higher altitudes, factors other than hypoxia may be primarily responsible. A valuable approach in the investigation of these fertility determinants is the use of salivary steroid assays. However, coca-leaf chewing--a ubiquitous pra...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vitzthum VJ,von Dornum M,Ellison PT

更新日期：1993-12-01 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 article examines the influence of nutritional status on the emergence of deciduous dentition in a cross-sectional sample of 510 rural Rajput children from the Jubbal and Kotkhai Tehsils, Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh, India. The nutritional status of each child was evaluated using Z-scores of height/supine le...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gaur R,Kumar P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the distribution of ten protein genetic polymorphisms in eighteen populations from the most densely inhabited areas of Cameroon. The languages spoken belong to three different linguistic families [Afro-Asiatic (AA), Nilo-Saharan (NS) and Niger-Kordofanian (NK)]. The analysis of variation of allele ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Spedini G,Destro-Bisol G,Mondovì S,Kaptué L,Taglioli L,Paoli G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently proposed model for canine reduction in hominid evolution (the "dual selection" model) suggests that canine reduction occurs as a result of selection for incorporation of the canines into a functional incisal field. Among the evidence used to support this model are patterns of wear and occlusion of the canin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Kelley J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farming is among the three most hazardous occupations in modern society and perhaps also held a similar position during the medieval period. The goal of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference in frequencies and patterns of longbone fracture trauma observed between rural and urban activity bas...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Judd MA,Roberts CA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric data on postcranial elements of ten species of Old World primates are used to test the elastic similarity model of limb scaling. The data are divided into three groupings to exclude as much variation due to differences in locomotor adaptation as possible. The data on skeletal diameters fits the model reas...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Steudel K

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of degenerative joint disease are investigated in the shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee joints of the macerated remains of approximately 800 individuals from 20th century American and two prehistoric populations. Age is an important contributory factor in all joints, but its effects are seen most directly in the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Jurmain RD

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test is sometimes used to test seasonality in births or other annually cyclic phenomena. However, it is shown that the maximum deviation from expected (D) may differ by a factor of almost two if the cycle is initiated in different months. Thus, different results are possible from the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McCullough JM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used two modern computerized handheld reflectometers, the Photovolt ColorWalk colorimeter (a tristimulus colorimeter; Photovolt, UMM Electronics, Indianapolis, IN) and the DermaSpectrometer (a specialized narrow-band reflectometer; Cortex Technology, Hadsund, Denmark), to compare two methods for the objective ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shriver MD,Parra EJ

更新日期：2000-05-01 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:Schistosome infections can damage organs important for water homeostasis, especially the kidneys. Urogenital schistosomiasis (caused by Schistosoma haematobium) increases protein and blood in urine and intestinal schistosomiasis (caused by S. mansoni) affects total body water. However, no data exist on how d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rosinger AY,Young SL,Collins SM,Haider SR,Mishra P,Nagai HT,Petro M,Downs JA

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:High-resolution imaging of fossils with X-ray computed microtomography (μCT) has become a very powerful tool in paleontological research. However, fossilized bone, embedding matrix, and dental tissues do not always provide a distinct structural signal with X-rays. We demonstrate the benefits of high-resoluti...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Urciuoli A,Zanolli C,Fortuny J,Almécija S,Schillinger B,Moyà-Solà S,Alba DM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short-statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especiall...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Formicola V,Frayer DW,Heller JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although degenerative joint disease is an old and exceedingly common problem, clinical investigators have not reached a consensus regarding the etiology of this disease. Comparative osteological analysis of the knee, hip, shoulder, and elbow joints of 789 individuals from four human skeletal populations (Black and Whi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Jurman RD

更新日期：1977-03-01 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