Digital dermatoglyphics of 107 Bengalis.

abstract：:The ∼37 million-year-old Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), in the Birket Qarun Formation of Egypt's Fayum Depression, yields evidence for a diverse primate fauna, including the earliest known lorisiforms, parapithecoid anthropoids, and Afradapis longicristatus, a large folivorous adapiform. Phylogenetic analysis has pla...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boyer DM,Seiffert ER,Simons EL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to document and interpret urban-rural differences in mortality in the past. To this end, we used data on mortality in Wielkopolska, Poland, in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The data on mortality in rural areas (N = 1,173,910 deceased), small towns (N = 573,903 ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Budnik A,Liczbińska G

更新日期：2006-02-01 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

abstract：:On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Galeta P,Sládek V,Sosna D,Bruzek J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the correlations between the languages spoken by human populations and the genes carried by the members of those populations have been limited by the small amount of genetic markers available and by approximations in the treatment of linguistic data. In this study we analyzed a large collection of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belle EM,Barbujani G

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs) may have lived in close proximity in the Near East region during Middle Paleolithic times. Although functional morphological analyses suggest a marked behavioral contrast between these two human groups, new dental micro- and macro-wear studies, together with new archa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fiorenza L,Kullmer O

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Oliver is an African ape whose species identity has been debated in the popular media and by various scientists since the early 1970s. Although decisive morphological data has never been adduced on Oliver, many reports indicated that Oliver was morphologically unusual for a chimpanzee, particularly in his habitual bip...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ely JJ,Leland M,Martino M,Swett W,Moore CM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metric and morphological characterizations of the permanent teeth from a total of 155 prehistoric Amerindians are presented. The individuals represent samples from three Ohio Valley burial complexes (considered together as the Late Diffuse group): Glacial Kame, Adena and Ohio Hopewell. Metric data include common measu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sciulli PW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental attrition scores from two distinct Australian Aboriginal populations were compared by principal axis analysis. The first group was composed of members of the Narrinyeri group who occupied the river basin and mouth of the River Murray. The second group consisted of members of the Kaurna tribe who occupied the co...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Richards LC

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vertical clinging and climbing have been integral to hypotheses about primate origins, yet little is known about how an animal with nails instead of claws resists gravity while on large, vertical, and cylindrical substrates. Here we test models of how force is applied to maintain posture, predicting (1) the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnson LE,Hanna J,Schmitt D

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial reshaping of the cranial vault has been practiced by many human groups and provides a natural experiment in which the relationships of neurocranial, cranial base, and facial growth can be investigated. We test the hypothesis that fronto-occipital artificial reshaping of the neurocranial vault results in spe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cheverud JM,Kohn LA,Konigsberg LW,Leigh SR

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are limited in their capacity to convert protein into energy. We present a hypothesis that a "bell" shaped thorax and a wide pelvis evolved in Neandertals, at least in part, as an adaptation to a high protein diet. A high protein diet created a need to house an enlarged liver and urinary system in a wider lower...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ben-Dor M,Gopher A,Barkai R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to help define the boundaries of the distribution of the albumin variants Naskapi and Mexico which are polymorphic among several American Indian groups, we examined sera from Micmac, Mohawk, Northwest River Naskapi, Omaha and Apache Indians, and from Aleuts and Eskimos. Sera from a total of 1,524 individuals ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schell LM,Agarwal SS,Blumberg BS,Levy H,Bennett PH,Laughlin WS,Martin JP

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large body size has been traditionally seen as the primary dietary adaptation of gorillas, facilitating their consumption of fibrous foods (Schaller ¿1963 The Mountain Gorilla; Watts ¿1990 Int. J. Primatol. 11:21-45). Nevertheless, recent research has emphasized frugivory among western lowland gorillas, as well as the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Remis MJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 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 was designed to investigate the relationship between traditional skeletal cephalometric measurement and Fourier analysis of the lateral soft-tissue profile. A random sample of 121 untreated subjects of European descent, with wide ranges of malocclusions and underlying facial patterns, was selected in the Or...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rose AD,Woods MG,Clement JG,Thomas CD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of geometric morphometric methods have recently been used to describe dental shape variation in human evolutionary studies. However, the applicability of these methods is limited when teeth are worn or are difficult to orient accurately. Here we show that elliptical best fits on outlines of dental tissues be...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bauer CC,Bons PD,Benazzi S,Harvati K

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Dentitions of 208 prehistoric skeletal specimens from five geographic regions of Oregon were studied to describe their dental status. Comparisons were made of the incidence of specific pathologies among regions and between jaws. Maxillary premortem tooth losses were significantly higher than mandibular tooth loss. A r...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hall RL,Morrow R,Clarke JH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field observations of bipedal posture and locomotion in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can serve as key evidence for reconstructing the likely origins of bipedalism in the last prehominid human ancestor. This paper reports on a sample of bipedal bouts, recorded ad libitum, in wild chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrabl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stanford CB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence has recently accumulated that the Singa calvaria from Sudan probably dates from Oxygen Isotope Stage 6 (>130 ka). Morphological studies have indicated a mixture of archaic and more modern human traits, but such analyses are complicated by the possibility that the vault is pathologically deformed, although the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Spoor F,Stringer C,Zonneveld F

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity and small sample size are problems that affect many paleodemographic studies. The former can cause the overall distribution of age at death to be an amalgam that does not accurately reflect the distributions of any of the groups composing the heterogeneous population. The latter can make it difficult to ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Whittington SL

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：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：:Lengths within the cranial base and vault were measured in cephalometric radiographs of 220 boys and 177 girls ranging in age from 0 to 15 years; all these children are participants in The Fels Longitudinal Growth Study. The present study is based on mixed longitudinal data derived from 1640 radiographs for boys and 1...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ohtsuki F,Mukherjee D,Lewis AB,Roche AF

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：:We investigated the energetic costs of quadrupedal and bipedal walking in two Japanese macaques. The subjects were engaged in traditional bipedal performance for years, and are extremely adept bipeds. The experiment was conducted in an airtight chamber with a gas analyzer. The subjects walked quadrupedally and bipedal...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nakatsukasa M,Ogihara N,Hamada Y,Goto Y,Yamada M,Hirakawa T,Hirasaki E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for estimating adult age-at-death from the first rib was developed as a modification of the Kunos et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 110 (1999) 303-323) method. Data were collected on three aspects of the first rib (costal face, rib head, and tubercle facet) for 470 known-age males of Balkan ancestry collected a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： DiGangi EA,Bethard JD,Kimmerle EH,Konigsberg LW

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00