Mechanical and spatial determinants of Paranthropus facial form.

abstract：:Despite the extensive electromyographic research that has addressed limb muscle function during primate quadrupedalism, the role of the back muscles in this locomotor behavior has remained undocumented. We report here the results of an electromyographic (EMG) analysis of three intrinsic back muscles (multifidus, longi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shapiro LJ,Jungers WL

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:Although the population history and social organization of the prehistoric Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest have received attention in the archaeological literature, little research on this topic has been conducted by biological anthropologists. Here, we examine postmarital residence at two ancestral Tewa Indi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schillaci MA,Stojanowski CM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several related demographic trends are occurring in developing countries: youth comprise a large portion of populations, fertility rates are declining, and urban dwellers are increasing. As fertility rates decline and populations age, the decline in the ratio of young dependents to working age adults is expected to fr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hadley C,Belachew T,Lindstrom D,Tessema F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the skeletal maturity status of Japanese children in Western Kyushu and its variation within Japanese populations. Hand-wrist skeletal maturity was assessed by the Tanner-Whitehouse (1975) (TW2) method from radiographs of 500 boys and 485 girls aged from 4 to 15 years. Western Kyushu children show...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Takai S,Akiyoshi T

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was conducted of 324 members of the Cajun isolate of Southern Alabama. Tradition and appearance suggest that this population of about 3,000 are not entirely White, Black, or Indian but constitute a triracial community somewhat reproductively isolated and inbred. The earliest American settlement in the area, a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pollitzer WS,Namboodiri KK,Coleman WH,Finley WH,Leyshon WC,Jennings GC,Brown WH

更新日期：1977-07-01 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：:In this paper we examine the effects of ethnicity on the gene flow between two groups living in Limón, Costa Rica. Our main interest is to determine if ethnicity has acted as a barrier to the exchange of genes, and if the groups have remained distinct genetically. We report the admixture estimates, F(st) values, and i...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Madrigal L,Ware B,Miller R,Saenz G,Chavez M,Dykes D

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Egyptian Western Desert lies on an important geographic intersection between Africa and Asia. Genetic diversity of this region has been shaped, in part, by climatic changes in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs marked by oscillating humid and arid periods. We present here a whole genome analysis of mitochond...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kujanová M,Pereira L,Fernandes V,Pereira JB,Cerný V

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Stable isotope data provide insight into the reconstruction of ancient human diet. However, cooking may alter the original stable isotope compositions of food due to losses and modifications of biochemical and water components. METHODS:To address this issue, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios were m...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Royer A,Daux V,Fourel F,Lécuyer C

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies of primate diversity and evolution rely on dental morphology for insight into diet, behavior, and phylogenetic relationships. Consequently, variation in molar cusp size has increasingly become a phenotype of interest. In 2007 we published a quantitative genetic analysis of mandibular molar cusp size varia...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Koh C,Bates E,Broughton E,Do NT,Fletcher Z,Mahaney MC,Hlusko LJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal reproductive investment includes both the energetic costs of gestation and lactation. For most humans, the metabolic costs of lactation will exceed those of gestation. Mothers must balance reproductive investment in any single offspring against future reproductive potential. Among mammals broadly, mothers may...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Quinn EA

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:The Philippines is generally believed to have been established by various peoples who migrated from neighboring areas. To gain new insights into the peopling of the Philippines, we used the JC virus (JCV) genotyping approach. We collected about 50 urine samples on each of two representative islands of the Philippines,...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Miranda JJ,Sugimoto C,Paraguison R,Takasaka T,Zheng HY,Yogo Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scratches found on the Engis 2 cranium have been described as perimortem and interpreted as intentional scalping marks by Russell and LeMort (Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 69:317-323, 1986). These marks are described and compared to damage on other fossil hominids. The Engis marks have been misinterpreted. These marks are s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： White TD,Toth N

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history theory predicts a trade-off between immunostimulation and growth. Using a cross-sectional study design, this study aims to test the hypothesis that C-reactive protein (CRP) is negatively associated with height-for-age z-scores (HAZ scores) and BMI-for-age z-scores (BAZ scores) among 6- to 19-year olds (N ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Konishi S,Parajuli RP,Takane E,Maharjan M,Tachibana K,Jiang HW,Pahari K,Inoue Y,Umezaki M,Watanabe C

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of enamel thickness has received considerable attention in regard to the taxonomic, phylogenetic and dietary assessment of human and non-human primates. Recent developments based on two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) digital techniques have facilitated accurate analyses, preserving the original ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Benazzi S,Panetta D,Fornai C,Toussaint M,Gruppioni G,Hublin JJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses data resampling to test the null hypothesis that the degree of variation in the cranial capacity of the Dmanisi hominid sample is within the range variation of a single species. The statistical significance of the variation in the Dmanisi sample is examined using simulated distributions based on compar...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lee SH

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:The control region of mitochondrial DNA has been widely studied in various human populations. This paper reports sequence data for hypervariable segments 1 and 2 of the control region from a population from southern Tuscany (Italy). The results confirm the high variability of the control region, with 43 different hapl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Francalacci P,Bertranpetit J,Calafell F,Underhill PA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual dimorphism in primate species expresses the effects of phylogeny, life history, behavior, and ontogeny. The causes and implications of sexual dimorphism have been studied in several different primates using a variety of morphological databases such as body weight, canine length, and coat color and ornamentation...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Masterson TJ,Hartwig WC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gorillas occupy a variety of habitats from the west coast to eastern central Africa. These habitats differ considerably in altitude, which has a pronounced effect on forest ecology. Although all gorillas are obligate terrestrial knuckle-walking quadrupeds, those that live in lowland habitats eat fruits and climb more ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dunn RH,Tocheri MW,Orr CM,Jungers WL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Miles method of age estimation relies on molar wear to estimate age and is widely used in bioarcheological contexts. However, because the method requires physical seriation and a sample of subadults to estimate wear rates it cannot be applied to many samples. Here, we modify the Miles method by scoring occlusal we...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilmore CC,Grote MN

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Associations between season of birth and body size, morbidity, and mortality have been widely documented, but it is unclear whether different parts of the body are differentially sensitive, and if such effects persist through childhood. This may be relevant to understanding the relationship between early life environm...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pomeroy E,Wells JC,Stanojevic S,Miranda JJ,Cole TJ,Stock JT

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigate whether age profiles of Tsimane forager-horticulturalists' reported skill development are consistent with predictions derived from life history theory about the timing of productivity and reproduction. Previous studies of forager skill development have often focused on a few abilities (e.g. hu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schniter E,Gurven M,Kaplan HS,Wilcox NT,Hooper PL

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Phenotypic variability is evaluated in a series of skeletal samples from the Apalachee region of Florida. Based on ethnohistoric evidence, several predictive models for changes in variability are generated. If variability decreases through time, this likely represents the effect of genetic drift in populations experie...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stojanowski CM

更新日期：2003-04-01 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