Ossification in the hand and foot of the macaque (Macaca nemistrina). I. General features.

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：:This paper is one in a series which explores the possibility of using the non-destructive CT technique to identify patterns in tooth enamel distribution and structure of hominid molars from Plio-Pleistocene sites in South Africa, notably Swartkrans, Sterkfontein, and Kromdraai. Whereas previous investigators have emph...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Macho GA,Thackeray JF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Early Neolithic involved an important social and economic shift that can be tested not only with the material culture, but also through biomolecular approaches. The Iberian Peninsula presents few Early Neolithic sites where fauna and humans can be analyzed together from an isotopic perspective. Here we p...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Villalba-Mouco V,Utrilla P,Laborda R,Lorenzo JI,Martínez-Labarga C,Salazar-García DC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Central African small-scale foragers subsist primarily on hunting game activities and wild plant-food gathering. Starch-rich tubers are underground storage organs (USOs) and staple food resources in savanna and tropical rainforests. However, little is known about the effect of USO consumption on tooth wear d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Romero A,Ramirez-Rozzi FV,Cuesta-Torralvo E,Pérez-Pérez A

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Despite the relatively large size of anthropoid incisors in relation to the remainder of the dental arcade, and their prominent role in the preprocessing of food prior to ingestion, comparatively little is known about the functional morphology of anthropoid incisor shape and crown curvature. The relationship between i...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Deane A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root dentine transparency (RDT) was used to estimate the ages of human subjects from 152 intact teeth. Teeth were from 134 subjects, both historical and recent, of known age and sex. The aims of this work are 1) to compare two methods of using RDT to estimate age; 2) to test the applicability of the regression formula...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Drusini A,Calliari I,Volpe A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The analysis of prehistoric human dietary habits is key for understanding the effects of paleoenvironmental changes on the evolution of cultural and social human behaviors. In this study, we compare results from zooarchaeological, stable isotope and dental calculus analyses as well as lower second molar macr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Oxilia G,Bortolini E,Badino F,Bernardini F,Gazzoni V,Lugli F,Romandini M,Radini A,Terlato G,Marciani G,Silvestrini S,Menghi Sartorio JC,Thun Hohenstein U,Fiorenza L,Kullmer O,Tuniz C,Moggi Cecchi J,Talamo S,Fontana F

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies based on genetic diversity of North African populations have contributed to elucidate the modelling of the genetic landscape in this region. North Africa is considered as a distinct spatial-temporal entity on geographic, archaeological, and historical grounds, which has undergone the influence of differen...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Triki-Fendri S,Sánchez-Diz P,Rey-González D,Ayadi I,Carracedo Á,Rebai A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callitrichids use their tongue in various social, ecological, and hygienic contexts. Using a noninvasive measuring device, we obtained data on the operational tongue length (OTL) in seven species from the family Callitrichidae. OTL (defined as the maximum tongue extension into the device) varied significantly between ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Heymann EW,von der Lage F

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of decrease of mean metacarpal cortical width was assessed by sequential radiographic morphometry for each hand separately in a series of 46 right-handed postmenopausal women observed for 222 patient-years. For the left hand, the mean rate was 0.0331 +/- 0.0053 mm/year and for the right, 0.0310 +/- 0.0060 mm/...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Horsman A,Simpson M,Armes F

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test is sometimes used to test seasonality in births or other annually cyclic phenomena. However, it is shown that the maximum deviation from expected (D) may differ by a factor of almost two if the cycle is initiated in different months. Thus, different results are possible from the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McCullough JM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This set of cross-sectional and longitudinal data from children and young adults in certain Bougainville and Solomon Islands populations undergoing rapid modernization during the period 1966-1986 reveals very different responses to essentially the same stimuli-the introduction and widespread availability of western di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Weitz CA,Friedlaender FR,Van Horn A,Friedlaender JS

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If predictable, ecogeographic patterning in body size and proportions of human populations can provide valuable information regarding human biology, adaptation to local environments, migration histories, and health, now and in the past. This paper evaluates the assumption that small-bodied Later Stone Age (LSA) forage...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kurki HK,Ginter JK,Stock JT,Pfeiffer S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During excavations of the Bronze Age levels at El Mirador Cave, a hole containing human remains was found. Taphonomic analysis revealed the existence of cutmarks, human toothmarks, cooking damage, and deliberate breakage in most of the remains recovered, suggesting a clear case of gastronomic cannibalism. The piled di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cáceres I,Lozano M,Saladié P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied patterns of genetic relatedness and paternity in moustached tamarins, small Neotropical primates living in groups of 1-4 adult males and 1-4 adult females. Generally only one female per group breeds, mating with more than one male. Twin birth are the norm. In order to examine the genetic consequences of thi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huck M,Löttker P,Böhle UR,Heymann EW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gilbert-McKern method for aging the female Os pubis has attained popularity following Gilbert's ('73) demonstration that the McKern-Stewart male standards are not directly applicable to females. In order to assess the reliability of the method, forensic anthropologists were asked to age a set of 11 pubes of known ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Suchey JM

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:A very limiting factor for paleoanthropological studies is the poor state of preservation of the human fossil record, where fragmentation and deformation are considered normal. Although anatomical information can still be gathered from a distorted fossil, such specimens must typically be excluded from advanced morphol...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Benazzi S,Gruppioni G,Strait DS,Hublin JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-dependent cortical bone loss in adult females from a skeletal assemblage from 3rd-4th century AD England was studied using metacarpal radiogrammetry. Results showed reduced peak cortical bone thickness compared with modern subjects, and the magnitude of cortical bone loss in older females compared with their young...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mays SA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to fill a persistent gap in the literature by documenting the timing of epiphyseal union at the vertebral end of the ribs in a sample of modern Portuguese skeletons. The skeletal remains of 53 females and 45 males, between the ages of 11 and 30, were taken from the Lisbon documented skeletal collec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ríos L,Cardoso HF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allometric relationships between incisor size and body size were determined for 26 species of New World primates. While previous studies have suggested that the incisors of Old World primates, and anthropoids in general, scale isometrically with body size, the data presented here indicate a negative allometric relatio...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Eaglen RH

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celebrations and bursts of communal joy can occur spontaneously in human communities based on mechanisms of emotional contagion. Some examples of similar collective excitement have been reported in animals when they reunite or anticipate rewards, but little is known about the processes and meaning of these multiple in...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： De Marco A,Cozzolino R,Dessì-Fulgheri F,Thierry B

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Recent research findings have highlighted the importance of early life conditions as risk factors for adult diseases and therefore determinants of subsequent survival. Given that individuals born during different seasons in seasonal environments experience different early-developmental conditions, an analysis of the e...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Muñoz-Tudurí M,García-Moro C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple "ladder-like" interpretations of the hominin fossil record. We then look at the hominin fossil record in a series of time intervals and use current published evidence abou...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wood B,K Boyle E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of carious lesions were analyzed in the Classic period coastal Maya population of Xcambó, a salt production and administration center in northern Yucatan. To this end, the study investigated caries in the permanent dentitions of 163 adult skeletons, 23 from the Early Classic (AD 250-550) and 140 from the Late...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cucina A,Cantillo CP,Sosa TS,Tiesler V

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cell count (RBC), hemoglobin concentration ([Hb]) and hematocrit (Hct) were measured in 303 male Quechua children and adults, aged 6 to 57 years, living a lifestyle as traditional pastoralists and horticulturalists at a mean altitude of 4,200 m in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Values for RBC, [Hb], and Hct in...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Garruto RM,Dutt JS

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair slope, whorl, cross and field formation is expressible in a topological form. The mathematical description required suggests an origin for the patterns in a growth process occurring in the upper dermis which determines the patterns of the hair slope. The formulae proposed by Euler, Poincaré and Ludwig are adopted...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Findlay GH,Harris WF

更新日期：1977-05-01 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