Body growth and life history in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

abstract：:An examination of the Vértesszöllös occipital bone indicates the need for takings its condition and preservation as well as certain aspects of its morphology into account prior to a metric assessment of its features. This analysis confirms the presence of extrasutural bones on the lambdoidal suture as well as some dis...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wolpoff MH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry of the midshaft cross-sections of the femur and humerus of five indriid species was analysed. Internal (marrow cavity) and external diameters were measured on X-rays in the anteroposterior (a-p) and mediolateral (m-l) planes; cross-sectional areas, second moments of area, and section moduli were calculate...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Demes B,Jungers WL,Selpien K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of unexpectedly ancient human remains has fuelled interest about the first dispersion of Homo outside Africa. The Dmanisi mandible is perhaps one of the most interesting findings, as it supposedly represents one of the oldest hominids outside of Africa. Recently, different interpretations have bee...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rosas A,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal reproductive investment includes both the energetic costs of gestation and lactation. For most humans, the metabolic costs of lactation will exceed those of gestation. Mothers must balance reproductive investment in any single offspring against future reproductive potential. Among mammals broadly, mothers may...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Quinn EA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted behavioral observations simultaneously with fecal sample collection on eight nonlactating females 2-3 times per week, October 1997-March 1998, to examine the relationship between ovarian hormones and the sexual behavior of female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) during the mating season. We analyzed sam...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： O'Neill AC,Fedigan LM,Ziegler TE

更新日期：2004-12-01 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

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：:Several related demographic trends are occurring in developing countries: youth comprise a large portion of populations, fertility rates are declining, and urban dwellers are increasing. As fertility rates decline and populations age, the decline in the ratio of young dependents to working age adults is expected to fr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hadley C,Belachew T,Lindstrom D,Tessema F

更新日期：2011-04-01 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:War atrocities committed by the Spanish army in the Low Countries during the 16th century are so ingrained in the collective memory of Belgian and Dutch societies that they generally assume a signature of this history to be present in their genetic ancestry. Historians claim this assumption is a consequence ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Larmuseau MHD,Calafell F,Princen SA,Decorte R,Soen V

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical and anthropological data suggest that skeletons excavated from an 11th to 15th century mass grave in Bondy, France, may be those of victims of the Great Plague. Using high-throughput real-time PCR investigation of the dental pulp collected from 14 teeth from five such skeletons, we detected Bartonella quint...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tran TN,Forestier CL,Drancourt M,Raoult D,Aboudharam G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adventus Saxonum is a crucial event in English protohistory. Scholars from a range of disciplines dispute the scale and demographic profile of the purported colonizing population. The 5th-7th century burial ground at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, is one of the few Anglian cemeteries where an associated settleme...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Montgomery J,Evans JA,Powlesland D,Roberts CA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work on the interspecific and intraspecific variation of trabecular bone in the proximal femur of primates demonstrates important architectural variation between animals with different locomotor behaviors. This variation is thought to be related to the processes of bone adaptation whereby bone structure is optimized t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ryan TM,van Rietbergen B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new optical device Lipometer allows noninvasive, quick, and safe determination of the thickness of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) layers (in mm) at any site of the human body. The specification of 15 evenly distributed body sites enables the precise measurement of subcutaneous body fat distribution, so-called s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tafeit E,Möller R,Sudi K,Horejsi R,Berg A,Reibnegger G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of red cell phosphoglucomutase (PGM) subtypes was determined by starch-gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing in a group of 2,484 unrelated individuals from ten Mongoloid populations of East Asia. The sample comprised 998 Chinese from various localities--Singapore, 325; Malaysia, 270; Taiwan, 27...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Saha N

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the skeletal maturity status of Japanese children in Western Kyushu and its variation within Japanese populations. Hand-wrist skeletal maturity was assessed by the Tanner-Whitehouse (1975) (TW2) method from radiographs of 500 boys and 485 girls aged from 4 to 15 years. Western Kyushu children show...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Takai S,Akiyoshi T

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of geometric morphometric methods have recently been used to describe dental shape variation in human evolutionary studies. However, the applicability of these methods is limited when teeth are worn or are difficult to orient accurately. Here we show that elliptical best fits on outlines of dental tissues be...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bauer CC,Bons PD,Benazzi S,Harvati K

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:In the present study the frequency of the simian crease among 57 Down patients is compared to the corresponding figures of related and unrelated individuals. A study of the correlation with the dermatoglyphic patterns of the thenar and hypothenar areas is presented, the palm print classification being carried out acco...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rignell A

更新日期：1987-03-01 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 present report follows up on the findings of previous research, including recent bioarchaeological study of well-dated Khoesan skeletal remains, that posits long term biological continuity among the indigenous peoples of South Africa after the Pleistocene. The Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System wa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Irish JD,Black W,Sealy J,Ackermann RR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of nine polymorphic loci for 82 North Amerindian populations was undertaken to test the hypothesis that increasing levels of sociocultural complexity are ineluctably accompanied by increased heterozygosity. The data reveal a significant relationship in the predicted direction. Moreover, the significant correl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Suarez BK,O'Rourke DH,Crouse JD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All primates regularly move within three-dimensional arboreal environments and must often climb, but little is known about the energetic costs of this critical activity. Limited previous work on the energetics of incline locomotion suggests that there may be differential selective pressures for large compared to small...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hanna JB,Schmitt D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty healthy men were asked to walk as straight as possible to a target 60 m away at normal speed. A series of footprints was recorded for each subject by having him wear socks soaked with red ink and walk on white paper fixed flat to the floor. Fourier analysis was applied to determine whether the subjects actually...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Uetake T

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：: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：:Comparison of hand long-bone lengths and variances in published measurements of North American Caucasoid, Venezuelan, and English individuals, and of their metacarpophalangeal pattern profiles (MPP), revealed systematic differences between samples from infancy through adulthood. The variances of Venezuelan males tend ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Arias-Cazorla S,Rodríguez-Larralde A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiographic studies have reported persistent right ventricle predominance in high altitude children as an adaptive response. No information was provided on ethnicity and environmental factors in those studies. We assessed the electrocardiographic characteristics in healthy high altitude children with mixed an...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huicho L,Niermeyer S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The robustness index (RI) is determined by multiplying dental mesiodistal and buccolingual diameters, and is used to estimate occlusal area. However, because teeth are not rectangular its calculation consistently causes overestimations. Moreover, teeth, in particular molars, are not identically shaped so overestimatio...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schmidt C,Ousley S,Schmidt M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of 36 human skeletons (eight subadults, 13 males, 15 females) recovered during a cemetery relocation near Charleston, SC, provides data on health and disease for a 19th-century sample of Afro-Americans. The majority of the burials date from 1840-1870. Skeletal analysis verified some historical interpretat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rathbun TA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00