Single-limb force data for two lemur species while vertically clinging.

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：:Primate species often eat foods of different physical properties. This may have implications for tooth structure and wear in those species. The purpose of this study was to examine the mechanical defenses of leaves eaten by Alouatta palliata from different social groups at Hacienda La Pacifica in Costa Rica. Leaves we...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Teaford MF,Lucas PW,Ungar PS,Glander KE

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:Thin mandibles and small incisors found in New World monkeys as compared with Old World monkeys suggest that there may be differences in craniofacial loading patterns between these two groups, particularly in levels of mandibular corpus twisting (Hylander, 1975, 1979a; Eaglen, 1984; Bouvier, 1986a,b). This study exami...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bouvier M,Tsang SM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of jugular foramen and mylohyoid groove bridging was studied in a population of East Asian Indian skulls (125 males and 109 females). The criteria of Dodo (J. Anat. 144:153-165, 1986) was used in the identification of a jugular bridge. There was an overall incidence of 8.1% in jugular foramen bridging, w...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sawyer DR,Kiely ML

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European populations have both a particularly long history of pulmonary tuberculosis and extremely high frequencies of cystic fibrosis (CF). While carriers of the recessive gene are asymptomatic for CF disease, their fibroblasts produce excessive amounts of hyaluronic acid, whose role in successful isolation of virule...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Meindl RS

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for estimating the general rate of nonpaternity in a population was validated using phenotype data on seven blood groups (A1A2BO, MNSs, Rh, Duffy, Lutheran, Kidd, and P) on 396 mother, child, and legal father trios from Nuevo León, Mexico. In all, 32 legal fathers were excluded as the possible father based on...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cerda-Flores RM,Barton SA,Marty-Gonzalez LF,Rivas F,Chakraborty R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suite of measurements was collected from the talus, calcaneus, navicular, and cuboid of humans from Southern China, Victorian Britain, Roman Britain, and Zulu tribes people from the Republic of South Africa. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses of dimensions of individual foot bones revealed subtle but d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kidd RS,Oxnard CE

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactase persistence (LP) is the phenotypic trait in which lactase secretion is maintained during adulthood. LP is due to mutations in the LCT enhancer region, located 14-kb upstream of the gene. In Europeans, the -13910*T allele is associated with LP. In Africans this allele is rare while other mutations in this same ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Friedrich DC,Callegari-Jacques SM,Petzl-Erler ML,Tsuneto L,Salzano FM,Hutz MH

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:The Byzantine Empire managed a complex administrative network that controlled the mining and processing of natural resources from within its boundaries. Scholars relying upon archeological and textual evidence debate the level of imperial involvement in these ventures, particularly in the provinces. Ancient sources no...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Perry MA,Coleman DS,Dettman DL,al-Shiyab AH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines patterns of growth in height and weight among children (< 60 months) of highland and coastal agricultural communities of Ecuador. Highland children are significantly shorter, but not significantly lighter than their coastal peers. Linear growth rates (cm/6 months) are comparable between the two sam...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Leonard WR,DeWalt KM,Stansbury JP,McCaston MK

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Since their first discovery, Neandertals have served as an out-group for interpreting human variation. Their out-group role has changed over the years because in spite of the fact that Neandertals are the most abundant of all fossil remains (or perhaps because of this) their interpretation is the most controversial of...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wolpoff MH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the population history and social organization of the prehistoric Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest have received attention in the archaeological literature, little research on this topic has been conducted by biological anthropologists. Here, we examine postmarital residence at two ancestral Tewa Indi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schillaci MA,Stojanowski CM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Femoral head size provides important information on body size in extinct species. Although it is well-known that femoral head size is correlated with acetabular size, the precision with which femoral head size can be estimated from acetabular size has not been quantified. The availability of accurate 3D surface models...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Hammond AS,Ward CV

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Form can be viewed as a combination of size and shape. Shape refers to the boundary outline independently from its orientation, relation to reference planes, and dimension (or size). Shape and its changes could be quantified by mathematical methods such as the Fourier series. In this investigation, Fourier analysis ha...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ferrario VF,Sforza C,Tartaglia GM,Colombo A,Serrao G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6 million French-Canadians of Québec derive from a relatively small number of founders. Consequently, some hereditary diseases, which may or may not present a worldwide distribution, have been detected in high frequency in this population. Several studies, however, indicate a nonuniform distribution of these disea...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gagnon A,Heyer E

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：:We studied patterns of genetic relatedness and paternity in moustached tamarins, small Neotropical primates living in groups of 1-4 adult males and 1-4 adult females. Generally only one female per group breeds, mating with more than one male. Twin birth are the norm. In order to examine the genetic consequences of thi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huck M,Löttker P,Böhle UR,Heymann EW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Comprehensive quantification of the shape and proportions of the medial tibial facet (MTF) of the talus (=astragalus) has been lacking for Primates and their closest relatives. In this study, aspects of MTF form were quantified and employed to test hypotheses about their functional and phylogenetic significa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boyer DM,Yapuncich GS,Butler JE,Dunn RH,Seiffert ER

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Human population movements in North Africa have been mostly restricted to an east-west direction due to the geographical barriers imposed by the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Although these barriers have not completely impeded human migrations, genetic studies have shown that an east-west genetic gradient e...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fadhlaoui-Zid K,Rodríguez-Botigué L,Naoui N,Benammar-Elgaaied A,Calafell F,Comas D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of previous studies have examined biological variability within individual human skeletal samples, using internal chronology as an explanatory source for variation. In this paper time series and matrix comparison methods are used to examine temporal serial correlation and trend of biological characteristics w...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Konigsberg LW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village-based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300-1600) North America. Within chiefdom-level societies, h...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Smith MO,Betsinger TK,Williams LL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New fossil hominid specimens from the Laetolili fossil locality in Tanzania are described. The material includes mandibles and teeth derived from reliably-dated deposits of Pliocene age. Preliminary descriptions, measurements and illustrations are presented. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： White TD

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital and palmar dermatoglyphics of 184 male and 224 female normal American Negroes were evaluated for digital patterns, digital ridge counts, palmar patterns, palmar main line terminations, accessory triradii and palmar creases. All subjects were seven year olds examined and found free of chronic or other genetic ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Steinberg FS,Cereghino JJ,Plato CC

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines quantification techniques applicable to human skeletal remains, and in particular the Lincoln index (LI), the minimum number of individuals (MNI), and what we refer to as the most likely number of individuals (MLNI), which is a modification of the LI by Chapman ([1951] Univ. Calif. Publ. Stat. 1:13...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Adams BJ,Konigsberg LW

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00