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How to measure reproductive success?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-05)
To date there have been few empirical comparisons between alternative methods for measuring reproductive success (RS). We consider the pros and cons of alternative measures of RS to provide guidance for the design of field ...
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 ...
The chronology of adipose tissue appearance and distribution in the human fetus
(Elsevier, 1984-09)
Timing of first appearance and subsequent distribution of adipose tissue were assessed in 488 normal-for-age human fetuses. The sample represented each of the three trimesters of normal pregnancies. Light microscopy showed ...
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 ...
Human intelligence. Edited by J. McVicker Hunt. 283 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. transaction books , New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1972. $2.95 (paper)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1973-11)
No Abstract.
Problems of sampling and inference in the study of fluctuating dental asymmetry
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1982-07)
Randomly distributed or “fluctuating” dental asymmetry has been accorded evolutionary meaning and interpreted as a result of environmental stress. However, except for congenital malformation syndromes, the determinants of ...
Bones of contention: Controversies in the search for human origins
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998)
No abstract.
Predictors of fecundability and conception waits among the Dogon of Mali
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1998-02)
Surprisingly little is known about the mechanisms that underlie variation in female fertility in humans. Data on this topic are nonetheless vital to a number of pragmatic and theoretical enterprises, including population ...
Developmental and nutritional determinants of pregnancy outcome among teenagers
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1985-03)
To investigate the determinants of low birth weight in infants born to adolescent mothers, we studied the obstetric population attended at the Maternity Hospital of Lima, Peru. From this population, 1256 gravidas, ranging ...