Passive joint mobility in patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas): rehabilitation of caged animals after release into a free-ranging environment.

abstract：:Multivariate analyses, supplemented by univariate statistical methods, of measurements from mandibular tooth crown dimensions and the mandible of Gigantopithecus blacki, G. bilaspurensis, Plio-Plelstocene hominids, Homo erectus, and seven Neogene ape species from the genera Proconsul, Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, and...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gelvin BR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the demographic correlates of paternity confidence, or men's assessment of the likelihood that they are the genetic father of a particular child. Evolutionary theory predicts that men will provide less parental investment for putative genetic offspring who are unlikely to be their actual offspring, but conf...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Anderson KG,Kaplan H,Lancaster JB

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fundamental ontogenetic pathways lead to the development of size differences between males and females. Males and females may grow at the same rate for different durations (bimaturism), grow for the same duration at different rates, or grow at a mix of rate and duration differences. While patterns of growth and ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： O'Mara MT,Gordon AD,Catlett KK,Terranova CJ,Schwartz GT

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：:In order to reassess previous hypotheses concerning dental size reduction of the posterior teeth during Pleistocene human evolution, current fossil dental evidence is examined. This evidence includes the large sample of hominid teeth found in recent excavations (1984-1993) in the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bermúdez de Castro JM,Nicolas ME

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:The objective of this study was to identify the presence of degenerative spondylolisthesis in adult Native American skeletons recovered from prehistoric and historic Pueblo sites in New Mexico. The vertebral columns of 491 individuals that were complete enough to allow the necessary observations produced 64 cases, wit...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Merbs CF

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Here we describe the case of an ectopic maxillary third molar (M3 ), preventing the eruption of the M2 , in the individual H3 of the hominin hypodigm of level TD6.2 of the Early Pleistocene site of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The fossil remains from the TD6.2 level of the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Martín-Francés L,Martinón-Torres M,Martínez de Pinillos M,Bayle P,Fernández-Colón P,García-Campos C,Modesto-Mata M,Carbonell E,Arsuaga JL,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesiodistal and buccolingual crown diameters were measured from dental casts representing the deciduous dentitions of 197 Aboriginal children from the Northern Territory of Australia. Double determination analysis indicated that the semi-automatic recording procedure used was reliable leading to observer errors of no ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Margetts B,Brown T

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：: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：:Body weight and ten body segment measurements were collected from 367 wild-trapped vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) in central and southern Kenya. The animals represent between 70 and 95% of the animals in each of 30 troops at four geographical locations separated by 80 to 380 km. The capture sites differed in ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Turner TR,Anapol F,Jolly CJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：: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：:The Miles system of ageing, based upon analysis of the rate of molar wear, was evaluated using the available dental sample from Tepe Hissar, Iran. The independently estimated ages for the mandibles and maxillae of the same individuals were found to be highly correlated (r = 0.87, p less than 0.001). Ages of a subsampl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nowell GW

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bone mineral content (BMC), bone width, and cross-sectional moment of inertia (CSMI) of 141 Alaskan Eskimo tibias were measured using photon absorptiometry. The effects of age and sex on the bones' structural properties were studied. It was found that in women, BMC decreased by 50% between the third and sixth deca...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Martin RB,Burr DB,Schaffler MB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The degree of expression of sulcal patterns on endocasts of nonhuman primates has been shown to depend primarily on species (brain size) and age of the individual. It has been suggested that brain details on endocasts are reproduced better in juvenile than adult primates. Here, we investigated age-related ch...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Van Minh N,Hamada Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this research is to evaluate the relative strength of the influences of diet, size, and phylogenetic signal on dental geometric shape. Accurate comprehension of these factors and their interaction is important for reconstructing diet and deriving characters for a cladistic analysis in fossil primates. Geom...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： St Clair EM,Boyer DM

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This research theoretically models and empirically records symphyseal surface strain during in vitro human mandibular wishboning (lateral transverse bending) in order to test one aspect of the hypothesis that the chin is an adaptive response to masticatory stresses. From a perspective of optimality, three qu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pampush JD,Daegling DJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention is called to a disputed diagnosis of trephination reported for a perforated skull of a prehistoric New England Indian. The perforation, surrounded by a saucer-like depression, is located exactly in the midline just in front of bregma. The finding of a similar lesion in a prehistoric Indian skull from the Nor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stewart TD

更新日期：1975-05-01 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：:The aim of this study was to document variation of deciduous tooth formation and eruption. The material comprises 121 individuals of known or estimated age (using tooth length) from Spitalfields in London, and radiographs of 61 healthy living children aged 2-5 years. Other skeletal material from two medieval Scottish ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Liversidge HM,Molleson T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin coloration in indigenous peoples is strongly related to levels of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). In this study, the relationships of skin reflectance to seasonal UVR levels and other environmental variables were investigated, with the aim of determining which variables contributed most significantly to skin reflect...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Chaplin G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous studies have characterized the genetic structure of populations from Haiti and Jamaica using classical and autosomal STR polymorphisms, the patrilineal influences that are present in these countries have yet to be explored. To address this lacuna, the current study aims to investigate, for the first ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Simms TM,Wright MR,Hernandez M,Perez OA,Ramirez EC,Martinez E,Herrera RJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Estimations of age from tooth formation standards for a large (n = 282) sample of subadult skeletal remains from a 19th century historic cemetery sample were analyzed. The standards of Moorrees et al. (1963a,b) for the permanent and deciduous teeth, and Anderson et al. (1976) for the formation of permanent dentition w...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Saunders S,DeVito C,Herring A,Southern R,Hoppa R

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00