Brief communication: Maximum ingested bite size in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) [0.03%]
简短通讯:西部低地大猩猩(戈拉哥拉哥拉种)的最大摄食咬合尺寸
Lisa M Paciulli,Carissa Leischner,Brooks A Lane et al.
Lisa M Paciulli et al.
Objectives: Previously, we found that maximum ingested bite size (Vb ), the largest piece of food an animal can consume without biting it into smaller pieces first, isometrically scales relative to body size in strepsirrh...
Kristen R R Savell
Kristen R R Savell
Objectives: Though recent quantitative genetic analyses have indicated that directional selection appears to be acting on limb lengths and measures of body size in modern humans, these studies assume equal evolvability ac...
Commingled crypts: Comparative health among Byzantine monastics in the Levant [0.03%]
交错墓室:黎凡特拜占庭修道士的健康比较研究
Margaret A Judd
Margaret A Judd
Objectives: Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued i...
Biological diversity in an Islamic archaeological population: A radiogenic strontium isotope and craniometric analysis of affinity in Ottoman Romania [0.03%]
伊斯兰考古人口的生物多样性:奥托曼罗马尼亚的放射性锶同位素和颅骨测量亲缘关系分析
Kathryn Grow Allen,Ryan D Mills,Kelly J Knudson et al.
Kathryn Grow Allen et al.
Objectives: Written accounts, as well as a previous craniometric study, indicate that migrations of non-Europeans and conversions of Europeans to Islam define Ottoman communities in Early Modern Europe. What is less clear...
Age estimation by multidetector computed tomography of cranial sutures in Chinese male adults [0.03%]
基于中国人男性颅缝的多层螺旋CT年龄估算研究
Fei Fan,Meng Tu,Rui Li et al.
Fei Fan et al.
Objectives: This study aimed to explore whether computed tomography (CT) images of cranial sutures can contribute to adult age estimation in Chinese Han individuals. ...
Asier Gómez-Olivencia,Diego López-Onaindia,Nohemi Sala et al.
Asier Gómez-Olivencia et al.
Objectives: We provide the description and comparative analysis of all the human fossil remains found at Axlor during the excavations carried out by J. M. de Barandiarán from 1967 to 1974: a cranial vault fragment and se...
Disentangling basal and accrued height-for-age for cross-population comparisons [0.03%]
解开基础和累积身高与年龄之间的关系以进行跨人群比较
Joseph V Hackman,Daniel J Hruschka
Joseph V Hackman
Objectives: Current standards for comparing stunting across human populations assume a universal model of child growth. Such comparisons ignore population differences that are independent of deprivation and health outcome...
Temitope A Esan,Lynne A Schepartz
Temitope A Esan
Background: The effect of nutritional status on the timing of permanent tooth formation is not well understood, despite clear evidence that systemic stresses result in enamel defects during tooth formation. ...
Sources of variation in weaned age among wild chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania [0.03%]
坦桑尼亚戈美保护区野生黑猩猩断奶年龄变异的来源
Elizabeth V Lonsdorf,Margaret A Stanton,Anne E Pusey et al.
Elizabeth V Lonsdorf et al.
Objectives: A key feature of human life history evolution is that modern humans wean their infants 2-4 years earlier on average than African apes. However, our understanding of weaning variation in apes remains limited. H...
Testing for paternal influences on offspring telomere length in a human cohort in the Philippines [0.03%]
菲律宾人群队列中男性父母对子女端粒长度影响的检验研究
Dan T A Eisenberg,Peter H Rej,Paulita Duazo et al.
Dan T A Eisenberg et al.
Objectives: Telomeres, emerging biomarkers of aging, are comprised of DNA repeats located at chromosomal ends that shorten with cellular replication and age in most human tissues. In contrast, spermatocyte telomeres lengt...