Jugular foramen and mylohyoid bridging in an Asian Indian population.

abstract：:Total testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in blood serum as well as free testosterone in saliva were determined by radioimmunoassay in 110 healthy young men. The results were compared with the development of terminal hair on the trunk and limbs, with the disposition to balding and with the disposition to acne. No sig...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Knussmann R,Christiansen K,Kannmacher J

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In recent years, several studies have shown that populations from cold, high-latitude regions tend to have relatively shorter limbs than populations from tropical regions, with most of the difference due to the relative length of the zeugopods (i.e., radius, ulna, tibia, fibula). This pattern has been explai...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Betti L,Lycett SJ,von Cramon-Taubadel N,Pearson OM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self-identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klimentidis YC,Miller GF,Shriver MD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A new tool for skeletal sex estimation based on measurements of the human os coxae is presented using skeletons from a metapopulation of identified adult individuals from twelve independent population samples. For reliable sex estimation, a posterior probability greater than 0.95 was considered to be the cla...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Brůžek J,Santos F,Dutailly B,Murail P,Cunha E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to provide skin color data on several endogamous groups of eastern Nepal and to demonstrate genetic microdifferentiation in skin color. Skin reflectance measures were taken at the upper inner arm and forehead sites, using the British DSL Model 99 Reflectance Spectrophotometer fitted with b...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Williams-Blangero S,Blangero J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The diet of tufted capuchins (Sapajus) is characterized by annual or seasonal incorporation of mechanically protected foods. Reliance on these foods raises questions about the dietary strategies of young individuals that lack strength and experience to access these resources. Previous research has demonstrat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Chalk J,Wright BW,Lucas PW,Schuhmacher KD,Vogel ER,Fragaszy D,Visalberghi E,Izar P,Richmond BG

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using observations on the presence or absence of terminal hair in 13 locations on 700 white adult males, descriptive statistics were tabulated, phi coefficients of intercorrelation were computed, principal axis factor loadings were extracted, and varimax rotation of factors to simple structure was performed. The resul...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Barker DG

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued in death, resulting in bioarchaeological marginalization, as was the case of the monastics excavated ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Judd MA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A contribution to the knowledge of the economy and the environmental surroundings of the populations living along the Nile valley in three different periods. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study reports stable isotope analyses on apatite bone samples of 139 humans, 48 mammals, and 43 fish from the Al Khiday arc...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Iacumin P,Di Matteo A,Usai D,Salvatori S,Venturelli G

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：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

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：:The purpose of this research was to study intra- and interspecific variability in mineral density in the femoral diaphysis of nonhuman primates. Four hundred five sections were taken from five sites along the femoral diaphysis of 34 macaques (Macaca sp.), 24 squirrel monkeys (Saimirisciureus), and 23 tamarins (Saguinu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Burr DB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the sacrum contributes to the size and shape of the birth canal, the sexually dimorphic sacrum of humans is frequently interpreted within obstetric contexts. However, while the human sacrum has been extensively studied, comparatively little is known about sacral morphology in nonhuman primates. Thus, it remains unc...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Moffett EA,Maddux SD,Ward CV

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A "dip" in the stable nitrogen isotope ratios (δ(15)N) of subadults in the late weaning/early post-weaning phase of growth and development has been observed. Speculatively, this is the mechanism of positive nitrogen balance operating among rapidly growing subadults. An alternate hypothesis for δ(15)N dips is...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Reitsema LJ,Muir AB

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：:Sediments in the Tugen Hills, west of Lake Baringo, Kenya, form one of the best fossiliferous successions known in Africa spanning the period from 14 my to less than 4 my. Hominoid fossils have previously been recovered from a number of localities in the region. We describe here a new hominid mandible (KNM-TH 13150) f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ward S,Hill A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To infer the ecogeographic conditions that underlie the evolutionary diversification of macaques, we investigated the within- and between-species relationships of craniodental dimensions, geography, and environment in extant macaque species. We studied evolutionary processes by contrasting macroevolutionary ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Grunstra NDS,Mitteroecker P,Foley RA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bones in the axial and appendicular skeletons exhibit heterogeneous growth patterns between different ethnic and sex groups. However, the influence of this differential growth on the expression of bone mineral content is not yet established. The aims of the present study were to investigate: 1) whether there are ethni...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nyati LH,Norris SA,Cameron N,Pettifor JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stepwise discriminant function analysis for sex assessment was applied to 130 North American Black femora. The measurements included femoral length and three midshaft dimensions likely to be preserved in archaeologically-derived and forensic remains. The method correctly assigned sex for 76.4% of the sample (range 70....

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dibennardo R,Taylor JV

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common live-born human aneuploidy is trisomy 21, which causes Down syndrome (DS). Dosage imbalance of genes on chromosome 21 (Hsa21) affects complex gene-regulatory interactions and alters development to produce a wide range of phenotypes, including characteristic facial dysmorphology. Little is known about h...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Starbuck JM,Cole TM 3rd,Reeves RH,Richtsmeier JT

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:The basicranium has been argued to contain a strong phylogenetic signal in previous analyses of primate cranial morphology. Therefore, further study of basicranial morphology may offer new insights into controversial phylogenetic relationships within primate groups. In this study, I apply 3-D geometric morphometric te...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilbert CC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of a study of the prevalence of nonsyndromic dental agenesis among a sample of 208 individuals (105 females, 103 males) between the ages of 15 and 29 years from a North American religious and genetic isolate, the Dariusleut Hutterites of Western Canada. Direct examination of dental casts, oral ex...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mahaney MC,Fujiwara TM,Morgan K

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed skeletal health disparities among African American and Euro-American males of low socioeconomic status born between 1825 and 1877. A total of 651 skeletons from the Cobb, Hamann-Todd, and Terry anatomical collections were macroscopically examined for skeletal pathologies related to dietary deficien...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： de la Cova C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neo-darwinian and population genetics theory assumes that the necessary and sufficient set of conditions for all genetic, therefore evolutionary, change has been identified. Punctuationalists have assumed the opposite and cite the fossil record as evidence for change too rapid to be explained in neo-darwinian theory. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Williams BJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Fueguians are descendants of the first settlers of America, a 'relict' isolated geographically for 10,000 years. We compared their cranial variation with other Americans, and samples from Asia and Australia to know whether the modern extinct Fueguians can be considered Paleoamericans or not. MATERIALS A...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Turbon D,Arenas C,Cuadras CM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation is proposed to be one of the most important factors influencing the evolution of mammalian societies. Although predation risk is thought to influence both the behavior and grouping patterns of most diurnal primates, evidence supporting this hypothesis is still limited. The spatial and temporal patterns of mi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Link A,Di Fiore A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ainu people are considered to be the descendants of preagricultural native populations of northern Japan, while the majority of the population of contemporary Japan (Wajin) is descended mainly from postneolithic migrants. Polymorphisms of the HLA-DRB1, DRB3, and DQB1 alleles were investigated in DNA samples of 50 ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bannai M,Tokunaga K,Imanishi T,Harihara S,Fujisawa K,Juji T,Omoto K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00