Isolation by distance in Middle Dalmatia-Yugoslavia.

abstract：:Hand radiograms for osseographic assessment of bone aging status were taken from more than 7,500 individuals residing in 31 different localities and belonging to 20 ethnic groups. Multiple regression analysis was used to evaluate possible associations between bone aging parameters and several climatic factors, to wit:...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belkin V,Livshits G,Otremski I,Kobyliansky E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dart's 1925 announcement of Australopithecus africanus (Dart: Nature 115 [1925] 195-199) was highly controversial, partly because of an interpretation of the Taung natural endocast that rested on an erroneous identification of the lambdoid suture as the lunate sulcus. Unpublished materials from the University of Witwa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Falk D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies of the relationship between developmental enamel defects and caries susceptibility have often produced conflicting results. This has been due in part to a failure to distinguish between different types of defects. Studies of this association in prehistoric populations have been rare. The complete deci...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Duray SM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous works on the inheritance of dental traits have traditionally followed Fisher's model for family data under the assumption that phenotypic similarity between relatives is due solely to genetic factors. This study uses recent causal models that incorporate the contribution of nonrandom environmental sources of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Potter RH,Rice JP,Dahlberg AA,Dahlberg T

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is a big challenge to diagnose the motives behind trepanations in prehistoric crania. Surgical-therapeutic attempts may be apparent by the presence of fractures, however, ritual or nonmedical motives are rarely supported by visible evidence in the bones. This article presents data on the trepanations of s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gresky J,Batieva E,Kitova A,Kalmykov A,Belinskiy A,Reinhold S,Berezina N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The human respiratory apparatus is characterized by sexual dimorphism, the cranial airways of males being larger (both absolutely and relatively) than those of females. These differences have been linked to sex-specific differences in body composition, bioenergetics, and respiratory function. However, whethe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： García-Martínez D,Torres-Tamayo N,Torres-Sanchez I,García-Río F,Bastir M

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Anthropologists were quick to recognize the potential of new techniques in molecular biology to provide additional lines of evidence on questions long investigated in anthropology, as well as those questions that, while always of interest, could not have been addressed by more traditional techniques. The earliest anci...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kaestle FA,Horsburgh KA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nariokotome Homo erectus has an apparent disjunction of inferred age as judged by dental maturity, by epiphyseal closure and by stature, when compared to modern human norms. On this basis, it has been suggested that this fossil hominin differed in its pattern of growth and development from modern humans. In partic...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Clegg M,Aiello LC

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New data were obtained on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Guahibo from Venezuela, a group so far not studied using molecular data. A population sample (n = 59) was analyzed for mtDNA variation in two control-region hypervariable segments (HV1 and HV2) by sequencing. The presence or absence of a 9-bp polymorphism in the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vona G,Falchi A,Moral P,Calò CM,Varesi L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body proportions and tissue composition (e.g., relative contributions of muscle, skin, bone, and adipose to total body mass) were determined through dissection of four adult captive lowland gorillas. The relative contribution of bone varies little among the four animals (10.2-13.4%) despite considerable range in body ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zihlman AL,McFarland RK

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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

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 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：:Variation in recent human mandibular form is often thought to reflect differences in masticatory behavior associated with variation in food preparation and subsistence strategies. Nevertheless, while mandibular variation in some human comparisons appear to reflect differences in functional loading, other comparisons i...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Holton NE,Franciscus RG,Ravosa MJ,Southard TE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of tooth wear among prehistoric and recent populations has frequently been concerned with the rate and pattern of wear over the dental arches. In this report we considered the question of tooth wear variation among collections of Australian Aboriginal crania recovered from several sites along the Murray Rive...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar S,Richards L,McKee J,Molnar I

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bantu languages are widely distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Genetic research supports linguists and historians who argue that migration played an important role in the spread of this language family, but the genetic data also indicates a more complex process involving substantial gene flow with resident ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Batai K,Babrowski KB,Arroyo JP,Kusimba CM,Williams SR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I analyzed the finger prints of 59 male and 48 female unrelated Bengalis in a rehabilitation camp of Dacca, Bangladesh. The most common pattern type in the Bengalis was the ulnar loop (53%), then whorls (40%); arches (5%) and radial loops (2%) were the least common. Radial loops occurred most frequently on the index f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Morgan LY

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haplogroup R1a1-M198 is a major clade of Y chromosomal haplogroups which is distributed all across Eurasia. To this date, many efforts have been made to identify large SNP-based subgroups and migration patterns of this haplogroup. The origin and spread of R1a1 chromosomes in Eurasia has, however, remained unknown due ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pamjav H,Fehér T,Németh E,Pádár Z

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates evidence of changes and continuities in ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico from the Middle Preclassic (600-300 BC) to the Postclassic (AD 1050-1542) through bioarchaeological analysis of cranial and projectile trauma. It is hypothesized that the frequency of v...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Serafin S,Lope CP,Uc González E

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo simulation based on the population structure of a small-scale human population, the Semai Senoi of Malaysia, has been developed to study the combined effects of group, kin, and individual selection. The population structure resembles D.S. Wilson's structured deme model in that local breeding populations ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fix AG

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：: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：: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：OBJECTIVES:Sex estimation in subadult skeletal remains is still considered highly problematic. The aim of this research is to test the reliability of the method of subadult sex assessment proposed by Luna and co-workers in 2017, based on the analysis of the auricular surface of the ilium. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Seven r...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Marino R,Tanganelli V,Pietrobelli A,Belcastro MG

更新日期：2020-09-16 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 skull is distinguished from other parts of the skeleton by its composite construction. The sutures between bony elements provide for interstitial growth of the cranium, but at the same time they alter the transmission of stress and strain through the skull. Strain gages were bonded to the frontal and parietal bone...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Herring SW,Teng S

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：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