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Mortality and magnitude of the "wild effect" in chimpanzee tooth emergence
(Elsevier, 2010)
Age of tooth emergence is a useful measure of the pace of life for primate species, both living and extinct. A recent study combining wild chimpanzees of the Taï Forest, Gombe, and Bossou by Zihlman et al.
(2004) suggested ...
A Comment on: The Recognition and Evaluation of Homoplasy in Primate and Human Evolution. (Lockwood, C.A., and J.G. Fleagle, 1999, Yrbk Phys Anthropol 42:189–232.)
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000-10)
No abstract.
Standards of arm muscle by stature for the assessment of nutritional status of children
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1987-08)
This study is based on a sample of 9,134 children ranging in age from 2 to 17 years from which the excessively lean and fat children by skinfold thickness were excluded. This sample was derived from the combined data sets ...
Genetic characterization of Gainj- and Kalam-Speaking peoples of Papua New Guinea
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1986-05)
The research presented focuses on genetic variation in the Gainj- and Kalam-speaking peoples of highland Papua New Guinea. The primary data are typings at 51 genetic loci observed on 600 individuals who reside in 21 census ...
Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies
(Elsevier, 1983-03)
During late winter and spring, hunter-gatherers in temperate, subarctic, and arctic environments often relied on diets that provided marginal or inadequate caloric intakes. During such periods, particularly when stored ...
Introduction
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1990)
A basic premise of studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s was that humans exhibited a uniform set of biological responses to the high altitude environment. Since then, investigations have been carried out in the North ...
History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia (two volumes)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1998-07)
Edited by Frank Spencer. New York: Garland. 1997. 1,195 pp. ISBN 0-8153-0490-0. $175.00 (cloth).
History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
This chapter explores the micro-politics of marriage practices among a Tamang and Ghale population in north central Nepal. Based on ethnographic and survey research in Timling (Tipling), it establishes that marriage ...
Fat distribution during growth and later health outcomes. Edited by Claude Bouchard and Francis E. Johnston. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc. 1988. x + 363 pp., figures, tables, index. $68.00 (cloth)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1988-12)
No Abstract.