Determination of sex from the tibia.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to evaluate the use of quantitative methods of measuring variation in scalp hair fiber shape and pigmentation and carry out exploratory data analysis on a limited sample of individuals from diverse populations in order to inform future avenues of research for the evolution of modern human hai...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lasisi T,Ito S,Wakamatsu K,Shaw CN

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Members of the Cercocebus-Mandrillus clade are united by several morphological features, including expanded premolars which are argued to be associated with a preponderance of hard objects in the diet. We test the association between premolar expansion and hard object feeding by examining how different dental regions ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McGraw WS,Vick AE,Daegling DJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Patterns of dental disease among Bronze Age people of the Indus Valley Civilization are currently based on early and incomplete reports by non-specialists. This deficiency precludes accurate diachronic analysis of dental disease and its relationship with increasing agriculturalism in the Indian subcontinent. The objec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lukacs JR

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotope variations were studied in necropolises of the early (6th to 7th century CE) and central (10th to 11th century CE) medieval period located in Fruili-Venezia Giulia (Northeastern Italy). The two periods each shortly followed two great barbarian invasions that changed the politics and economy of Italy: the arriv...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Iacumin P,Galli E,Cavalli F,Cecere L

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：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：:A radiographic technique for processing a large number of human crania was developed to aid in the diagnosis of porotic hyperostosis in a large skeletal population. These images are made directly onto photographic paper, thereby reducing costs and increasing the rate of processing. The technique is especially well sui...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fairgrieve SI,Bashford J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We classified diversity in eight new complete mitochondrial genome sequences and 41 partial sequences from living Aboriginal Australians into five haplogroups. Haplogroup AuB belongs to global lineage M, and AuA, AuC, AuD, and AuE to N. Within N, we recognize subdivisions, assigning AuA to haplogroup S, AuD to haplogr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： van Holst Pellekaan SM,Ingman M,Roberts-Thomson J,Harding RM

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：:Angular and linear measurements of maxillary first molar occlusal polygons are given for young San (Bushmen), Sotho, Asiatic Indians, Whites, and Papago Indians. Angular and linear measurements are inseparably related. Much greater variation occurs in widths than in lengths. Maximum variation occurs between San and Pa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Morris DH

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable rheumatologic disorder. It should be deleted as an identifier for oste...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief description of the exposed middle ear from two Swartkrans specimens demonstrates the feasibility of examining the inner auditory structures of existing fossil hominid material. These Swartkrans fossils provide the first clear view of the early hominid middle ear, and their structures appear to be morphological...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rak Y,Clarke RJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental microwear researchers consider exogenous grit or dust to be an important cause of microscopic wear on primate teeth. No study to date has examined the accumulation of such abrasives on foods eaten by primates in the forest. This investigation introduces a method to collect dust at various heights in the canopy....

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ungar PS,Teaford MF,Glander KE,Pastor RF

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:All primates regularly move within three-dimensional arboreal environments and must often climb, but little is known about the energetic costs of this critical activity. Limited previous work on the energetics of incline locomotion suggests that there may be differential selective pressures for large compared to small...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hanna JB,Schmitt D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frost (1987a) proposed an algorithm for estimating the number of missing osteons that correspond to observed osteon population densities (OPD). Such an algorithm should allow more accurate estimates of bone remodeling rates for skeletal remains for which in vivo labeling is not possible. In order to validate the algor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stout SD,Paine RR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primate fossil assemblages often have metacarpals and phalanges from which functional/behavioral interpretations may be inferred. For example, intrinsic hand proportions can indicate hand function and substrate use. But, estimates of intrinsic hand proportions from unassociated hand elements can be imperfect due to di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Venkataraman VV,Rolian C,Gordon AD,Patel BA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Form can be viewed as a combination of size and shape. Shape refers to the boundary outline independently from its orientation, relation to reference planes, and dimension (or size). Shape and its changes could be quantified by mathematical methods such as the Fourier series. In this investigation, Fourier analysis ha...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ferrario VF,Sforza C,Tartaglia GM,Colombo A,Serrao G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactation is an energy demanding phase in the reproductive cycle of female mammals. For this reason, several studies have assessed the effects of lactation on female behavior. In this study we examine the influence of lactation on the time-budgets and foraging patterns of female black howlers (Alouatta pigra) in Campe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dias PA,Rangel-Negrín A,Canales-Espinosa D

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Male baboons use their sharp upper canines in aggressive interactions. These teeth are sharpened against specialized lower third premolars. The honing premolar is protected against wear by having very thick enamel and the upper canine having very thin enamel, not by structural or mineral differences between the two en...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Walker A

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：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：:The use of tooth cementum annulations for age determination has been deemed promising, exhibiting high correlations with chronological age. Despite its apparent potential, to date, the tooth cementum annulations method has been used rarely for estimating ages in archaeological populations. Here we examine the readabil...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Roksandic M,Vlak D,Schillaci MA,Voicu D

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Previous research has demonstrated that species and subspecies of extant chimpanzees and bonobos can be distinguished on the basis of the shape of their molar crowns. Thus, there is potential for fossil taxa, particularly fossil hominins, to be distinguished at similar taxonomic levels using molar crown morphology. Un...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Skinner MM,Gunz P,Wood BA,Boesch C,Hublin JJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 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