A comparison of axial trunk rotation during bipedal walking between humans and Japanese macaques.

abstract：:A matrix decomposition model for analyzing prehistoric intracemetery biological variability is presented. The model, based on the correlation between interindividual biological and burial distance matrices, provides an estimate of the number of distinct burial populations interred within a single cemetery, which effec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stojanowski CM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some erythrocyte genetic factors were studied in the indigenous population of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on the southeastern coast of the Arabian peninsula. Determinations carried out included blood groups and types ABO, MNS, Rh0, KkJsa, FyaFyb, P1, Lea, Vela, hemoglobin variants, and screenin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kamel K,Chandy R,Mousa H,Yunis D

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of several associated body parts of early hominids whose taxonomic identity is known inspires this study of body size and proportions in early hominids. The approach consists of finding the relationship between various measures of skeletal size and body mass in modern ape and human specimens of known bod...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McHenry HM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new species Agerinia smithorum (Adapiformes, Primates) from the early Eocene of the Iberian Peninsula is erected in this work. An emended diagnosis of the genus is provided, together with a broad description of the new species and comparisons with other samples assigned to Agerinia and other similar medium-sized c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Femenias-Gual J,Minwer-Barakat R,Marigó J,Moyà-Solà S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of mitochondrial genomes from Native Americans have brought the overall number of recognized maternal founding lineages from just four to a current count of 15. However, because of their relative low frequency, almost nothing is known for some of these lineages. This leaves a considerable void in under...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hooshiar Kashani B,Perego UA,Olivieri A,Angerhofer N,Gandini F,Carossa V,Lancioni H,Semino O,Woodward SR,Achilli A,Torroni A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between human placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) genotype and birth weight is investigated in a sample of white, black and Puerto-Rican new-born infants from New Haven, Connecticut (total 710 subjects). Black and Puerto-Rican infants show a higher incidence of growth retardation and a higher freque...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Amante A,Borgiani P,Gimelfarb A,Gloria-Bottini F

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive histories of women aged 45-70 years from a homogeneous Berber population of South Morocco were sampled from three contrasting environments: a small town (n = 75), villages in the lowlands (n = 217), and villages in the highlands (n = 128). The main reproductive variables oppose the relatively better c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Crognier E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study are to describe genetic correlations between dental dimensions in a platyrrhine primate, to assess whether the brown-mantled tamarin dentition exhibits genetic modularity by tooth type, and to discuss the relationship between body size reduction and the genetic architecture of de...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hardin AM

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Among the diagnostic features of the Neandertal mandible are the broad base of the coronoid process and its straight posterior margin. The adaptive value of these (and other) anatomical features has been linked to the Neandertal's need to cope with a large gape. The present study aims to test this hypothesis...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Marom A,Rak Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intergroup comparison of cephalometric landmark configurations by the finite-element method elegantly depicts the algebra of some of the size and shape change measures that one may define by reference to those landmarks. In studies of mean differences between groups, the statistical analysis of these finite element...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bookstein FL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field studies of feeding in the lemur subspecies Lemur fulvus rufus and L. f. mayottensis have revealed that feeding patterns within a single species can be markedly different, both regionally and seasonally. Thus L. f. rufus is a dietary specialist (3 plant species accounting for 80-90% of feeding time), and is highl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kay RF,Sussman RW,Tattersall I

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the results of a study of infant diet at two Iron Age sites on the island of Öland, Sweden. The cemetery at Bjärby contained a large number of subadults who had survived the earliest years of life, whereas most individuals at Triberga had died by 6 months of age. To investigate whether difference...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Howcroft R,Eriksson G,Lidén K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order in which ectocranial sutures undergo fusion displays species-specific variation among primates. However, the precise relationship between suture closure and phylogenetic affinities is poorly understood. In this study, we used Guttman Scaling to determine if the modal progression of suture closure differs amo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cray J Jr,Meindl RS,Sherwood CC,Lovejoy CO

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frost (1987a) proposed an algorithm for estimating the number of missing osteons that correspond to observed osteon population densities (OPD). Such an algorithm should allow more accurate estimates of bone remodeling rates for skeletal remains for which in vivo labeling is not possible. In order to validate the algor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stout SD,Paine RR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of sex from the tibial shaft as well as the entire bone itself has not been generally investigated by osteologists . This paper is an attempt to fulfill this need. The purpose is to determine sex from both the complete tibia and the shaft at the nutrient foramen level. The sample was obtained from the Te...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Iscan MY,Miller-Shaivitz P

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sex is usually not estimated in skeletonized non-adult individuals because sexual dimorphism is considered minimal before puberty. In 2017, a new approach based on the shape of the auricular surface was proposed, showing that this anatomic area of the ilium is dimorphic. This study tests the reproducibility ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Monge Calleja ÁM,Aranda CM,Santos AL,Luna LH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine studies of captive strepsirrhine primates suggest that physical environment and social factors mediate inter-individual variations in testicular function and serum testosterone (sT) in males. While these studies have made major contributions to our understanding of the individual proximate mechanisms influen...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Brockman DK,Whitten PL,Richard AF,Schneider A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We documented the spacing and distribution of perikymata on the buccal enamel surface of fossil hominin anterior teeth with reference to a sample of modern human and modern great ape teeth. A sample of 27 anterior teeth attributed to Australopithecus (5 to A. afarensis, 22 to A. africanus) and of 33 attributed to Para...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dean MC,Reid DJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:African American populations in the U.S. formed primarily by mating between Africans and Europeans over the last 500 years. To date, studies of admixture have focused on either a one-time admixture event or continuous input into the African American population from Europeans only. Our goal is to gain a bette...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gross JM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is thought to increase as a result of environmental perturbations during development. A number of studies involving measures of health and developmental stability other than FA have discussed the presumed increased buffering in females relative to males. But, there is little evidence in the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ozener B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population genetic studies in Saudi Arabia are performed for EsD, GPT, AcP, ADA, AK, 6-PGD, PGM, C3, Tf, Hp, Gc, Pi, Bf, Hb, ABO-blood groups and Rh-factor, level of the third component of complement and immunoglobulins. The data are compared with reported frequencies in European and African populations. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Goedde HW,Benkmann HG,Agarwal DP,Hirth L,Bienzle U,Dietrich M,Hoppe HH,Orlowski J,Kohne E,Kleihauer E

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:Life history theory predicts a trade-off between immunostimulation and growth. Using a cross-sectional study design, this study aims to test the hypothesis that C-reactive protein (CRP) is negatively associated with height-for-age z-scores (HAZ scores) and BMI-for-age z-scores (BAZ scores) among 6- to 19-year olds (N ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Konishi S,Parajuli RP,Takane E,Maharjan M,Tachibana K,Jiang HW,Pahari K,Inoue Y,Umezaki M,Watanabe C

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Patterns of dental disease among Bronze Age people of the Indus Valley Civilization are currently based on early and incomplete reports by non-specialists. This deficiency precludes accurate diachronic analysis of dental disease and its relationship with increasing agriculturalism in the Indian subcontinent. The objec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lukacs JR

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A marked asymmetry was previously reported in the sacral alae and S1-L5 facets orientation of the Neandertal individual Regourdou 1. Here, we provide a detailed description and quantification of the morphology and degree of asymmetry of this sacrum. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Regourdou 1 was compared to a modern ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rmoutilová R,Gómez-Olivencia A,Brůžek J,Holliday T,Ledevin R,Couture-Veschambre C,Madelaine S,Džupa V,Velemínská J,Maureille B

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Observations on petalial asymmetry for 190 hominoid endocasts are reported, and their statistical differences assessed. While all taxa of hominoids show asymmetries to various degrees, the patterns or combinations of petalial asymmetries are very different, with fossil hominoids and modern Homo sapiens showing an iden...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Holloway RL,De La Costelareymondie MC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00