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Information on ancestry from genetic markers
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-05)
It is possible to estimate the proportionate contributions of ancestral populations to admixed individuals or populations using genetic markers, but different loci and alleles vary considerably in the amount of information ...
Meinhard Robinow: An appreciation
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1995-10-23)
No Abstract.
Demography of agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis )
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-10)
Demographic processes and the structure of a population of agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis ) were investigated over 6 years in the Gunung Palung Reserve, Indonesia. Estimates of population size, density, and biomass ...
Dialects in wild chimpanzees?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1992)
Chimpanzees emit a loud, species-typical long distance call known as the pant hoot. Geographic variation between the pant hoots of chimpanzees living in two neighboring populations, the Mahale Mountains and Gombe Stream ...
Book Review: The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest. Behavioural Ecology and Evolution. By Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, x + 316 pp., $39.50 (paperback)
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-10)
Multivariate discrimination, tooth measurements and early hominid taxonomy
(Elsevier, 1976-07)
It is argued that the value of the various multivariate approaches in dealing with functional, taxonomic, and phylogenetic problems can only be determined empirically. A review of three studies dealing with multivariate ...
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-09)
Number of males in primate groups: Comparative tests of competing hypotheses
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996)
Primate social groups frequently contain multiple males. Male group size has been hypothesized to result from male mating competition, but the selective factors responsible for the evolution of multimale groups are unclear. ...
Krapina, "Classic" Neanderthals, and the evolution of the European face,
(Elsevier, 1979-07)
Except for the front end of the dental arch, tooth size remained at approximately the same level throughout the Middle Pleistocene. The Krapina Neanderthals at the end of the last interglacial differed from Homo erectus ...
Developmental adaptation to high altitude hypoxia
(Springer-Verlag; Swets & Zeitlinger B.V., 1977-06)
Experimental studies on animals and humans exposed to hypoxic stress have been reviewed. These data suggest that the influence of hypoxic stress, and the organism's response to it, are greater during growth than during ...