Brief communication: bone remodeling rates: a test of an algorithm for estimating missing osteons.

abstract：:Within- and between-species variation in restriction endonuclease recognition sites was examined at the Y-linked RPS4Y locus of six hominoid species: human (Homo sapiens), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), bonobo (Pan paniscus), orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and gibbon (Hylobates lar). RPS4Y is an...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Samollow PB,Cherry LM,Witte SM,Rogers J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:War atrocities committed by the Spanish army in the Low Countries during the 16th century are so ingrained in the collective memory of Belgian and Dutch societies that they generally assume a signature of this history to be present in their genetic ancestry. Historians claim this assumption is a consequence ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Larmuseau MHD,Calafell F,Princen SA,Decorte R,Soen V

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results concerning HLA types and 22 other blood genetic systems are reported for the Parakanã Indians of northern Brazil, a tribe that is notable for the light color and pilosity of some of its members. No clear evidence of Caucasoid admixture was found, but the Parakanã show unusual frequencies in the EsD1, PGM1(1) G...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Black FL,Salzano FM,Layrisse Z,Franco MH,Harris NS,Weimer TA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interdisciplinary research has benefitted the fields of anthropology and engineering for decades: a classic example being the application of material science to the field of feeding biomechanics. However, after decades of research, discordances have developed in how mechanical properties are defined, measured, calcula...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Berthaume MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel hypoplasias, deficiencies in enamel thickness resulting from disturbances during the secretory phase of enamel development, are generally believed to result from nonspecific metabolic and nutritional disruptions. However, data are scare on the prevalence and chronological distributions. of hypoplasias in popula...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Goodman AH,Allen LH,Hernandez GP,Amador A,Arriola LV,Chávez A,Pelto GH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is a big challenge to diagnose the motives behind trepanations in prehistoric crania. Surgical-therapeutic attempts may be apparent by the presence of fractures, however, ritual or nonmedical motives are rarely supported by visible evidence in the bones. This article presents data on the trepanations of s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gresky J,Batieva E,Kitova A,Kalmykov A,Belinskiy A,Reinhold S,Berezina N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of discovery and interpretation of primate footprints at the site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania is reviewed. An analysis of the geological context of these tracks is provided. The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum. Comparison of t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： White TD,Suwa G

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about primate genomes has re-emphasized the importance of the great apes (Pan, Gorilla, and Pongo) as, for most purposes, the appropriate comparators when generating hypotheses about the most recent common ancestor of the hominins and panins, or the most recent common ancestor of the hominin clade. Great a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gordon AD,Marcus E,Wood B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive central fat in children and adolescents is a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. This study aimed to compare the body fat distribution patterns of children and adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria with international reference standards. Five hundred seventy children aged 5 to 19 years were se...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Senbanjo IO,Oshikoya KA,Olutekunbi OA,Njokanma OF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five polymorphisms involving two paternally inherited loci were surveyed in 38 world populations (n = 1,631) to investigate the origins of Native Americans. One of the six Y chromosome combination haplotypes (1T) was found at relatively high frequencies (17.8-75.0%) in nine Native American populations (n = 206) repres...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Karafet T,Zegura SL,Vuturo-Brady J,Posukh O,Osipova L,Wiebe V,Romero F,Long JC,Harihara S,Jin F,Dashnyam B,Gerelsaikhan T,Omoto K,Hammer MF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial similarity of the dermatoglyphic trait values of finger ridge-count scores and pattern intensity index is examined for 125 nuclear families from the Velanadu Brahmin population of Southern India by the method of association arrays. This methodology assesses parent-offspring and sibship similarity through a co...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Karlin S,Williams PT,Chakraborty R,Mathew S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of jugular foramen and mylohyoid groove bridging was studied in a population of East Asian Indian skulls (125 males and 109 females). The criteria of Dodo (J. Anat. 144:153-165, 1986) was used in the identification of a jugular bridge. There was an overall incidence of 8.1% in jugular foramen bridging, w...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sawyer DR,Kiely ML

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty weanling 6-month-old male squirrel monkeys were allotted to the following treatments: 1) first control animals were killed at weaning; 2) second control animals were killed when 24 months old; and 3) malnourished animals were fed on a low-protein diet and killed at age 24 months. Lateral and vertical teleradiog...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pucciarelli HM,Dressino V,Niveiro MH

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being frugivorous, Cebus and Saimiri stand out among the New World primates of similar body size in being heavily dependent on animal matter for protein (faunivory). A detailed description of the morphology and behavior of the two genera is presented with the object of evaluating the interaction and res...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Janson CH,Boinski S

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to report and interpret a feature on the anterolateral surface of the proximal femurs of the Krapina hominid collection that we briefly described in 2006 (Periodicum Biologorum, 108, 319-329). MATERIALS AND METHODS:We recorded the presence or absence of the feature in all the pr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belcastro MG,Mariotti V

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainties as to the nature and implications of osteoarthritis and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPPD) in primates were subject to critical review through examination of 153 prosimians and 1,250 Old World non-prosimian primates. Osteoarthritis, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, and infectious ar...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM,Woods RJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been generally assumed and theoretically argued that the curvature of finger and toe bones seen in some nonhuman primates is associated with cheiridial use in an arboreal setting. Assessment of such curvature in fossil primates has been used to infer the positional behavior of these animals. Several methods of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stern JT Jr,Jungers WL,Susman RL

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Modern humans diverge from other extant hominids (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans) in a series of craniofacial morphological features. Like hylobatids, they possess a face with a reduced subnasal prognathism that is associated with a globular basicranium. These traits are not independent, as the skull ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Neaux D

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of precoccygeal vertebrae (PCV) are compared in Southern African Negroes, Bushman (San) and American Negroes. The S.A. Negro and San males have an exceptionally high frequency of an increased total PCV number whilst the frequencies are significantly lower in a combined Caucasoid sample and the Mongoloid sa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： de Beer Kaufman P

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative endocrine studies have notably advanced understanding of ecological factors that contribute to variation in human reproductive function. Such research has relied on methodological advances that permit hormone determinations in samples that are easily and safely collected, stored, and transported, most rece...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Worthman CM,Stallings JF

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human interactions with nonhuman primates vary tremendously, from daily cultural engagements and food commodities, to pet ownership and tourist encounters. These interactions provide opportunities for the exchange of pathogenic organisms (both zoonoses and anthroponoses). As exposures are not limited to areas where bu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Muehlenbein MP

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A model is developed that treats migration rates among populations as a function of the geographic distance between them and the size of both sources and recipient population. Specifically, mij/mjj = a(Ni/Nj)pe-bd, where mij/mjj is the relative migration rate into population j from population i, Ni is the size of the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Relethford JH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paget's disease has been ascribed several times to specimens of archeological bone but, in the absence of microscopic examination, the evidence remains insubstantial. Suspected metabolic bone disease is described here in the archeological remains of a skeleton from a 16th century burial ground at Wells Cathedral, Engl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Aaron JE,Rogers J,Kanis JA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The name "Wampanoag" means "Eastern People" or "People of the First Light" in the local dialect of the Algonquian language. Once extensively populating the coastal lands and neighboring islands of the eastern United States, the Wampanoag people now consist of two federally recognized tribes, the Aquinnah and Mashpee, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zhadanov SI,Dulik MC,Markley M,Jennings GW,Gaieski JB,Elias G,Schurr TG,Genographic Project Consortium.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mummies are human remains with preservation of nonbony tissue. Mummification by natural influences results in so-called natural mummies, whereas mummification induced by active (human) intervention results in so-called artificial mummies, although many cultures practiced burial rites, which to some degree involved bot...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lynnerup N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1930s subadult hominin remains and Mousterian artifacts were discovered in the Teshik-Tash cave in South Uzbekistan. Since then, the majority of the scientific community has interpreted Teshik-Tash as a Neanderthal. However, some have considered aspects of the morphology of the Teshik-Tash skull to be more simi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gunz P,Bulygina E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Schistosome infections can damage organs important for water homeostasis, especially the kidneys. Urogenital schistosomiasis (caused by Schistosoma haematobium) increases protein and blood in urine and intestinal schistosomiasis (caused by S. mansoni) affects total body water. However, no data exist on how d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rosinger AY,Young SL,Collins SM,Haider SR,Mishra P,Nagai HT,Petro M,Downs JA

更新日期：2018-08-01 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