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Contexts and social correlates of long-distance calling by male chimpanzees
(Elsevier, 1993-04)
Abstract. Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, live in unstable social groups, whose members associate in temporary parties of varying size and composition. Male chimpanzees utter a long-distance vocalization, the pant-hoot, that ...
General Gregariousness and Specific Social Preferences among Wild Chimpanzees
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-10)
Wild chimpanzees form temporary parties that vary in size and composition. Previous studies have revealed considerable intraspecific variation in party compositions. We examined patterns of association among age, sex, and ...
The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish
(Brill Academic Publishers; by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-01)
A small archive of economic documents from the city of Kish in the late Old Babylonian period records amounts of money owed to the “supervisor of kezertu women” from the kezertu account. The employment of kezertu women in ...
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 ...
Oleneostrovski mogilnik: Reconstructing the social and economic organization of prehistoric foragers in Northern Russia
(Elsevier, 1984-03)
Oleneostrovski mogilnik (Red Deer Island cemetery) in Karelia, USSR, is the largest known Mesolithic-age cemetery in the Boreal zone, containing the remains of at least 170 individual interments. An analysis of mortuary ...
Origins of differences in hemoglobin concentration between Himalayan and Andean populations
(Elsevier, 1988-04)
Mean hemoglobin concentration of 3511 adult males derived from 19 studies of Andean male permanent residents and 10 studies of Himalayan male permanent residents were compared with reference to partial pressure of inspired ...
Altitude and growth: A study of the patterns of physical growth of a high altitude Peruvian Quechua population
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1970-03)
Data on physical growth were obtained for a sample of 1202 Quechua subjects, aged 2 to 35 years from the district of NuÑoa, Puno, located in the southern highlands (altitude 4000–5500m) of Peru. These data were supplemented ...
Size reduction associated with brachymesophalangia-5: A possible selective advantage
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1972-09)
Subjects with brachymesophalangia-5 (the short middle segment trait of the fifth digit) are systematically reduced in the length of the second metacarpal and in stature, by approximately 0.5 standard deviations, in contrast ...
Grey Suit or Brown Carhartt: Narrative Transition, Relocation and Reorientation in the Lives of Corporate Refugees
(Journal of Anthropological Research, 2006-09)
This article examines relocation stories of people who leave behind corporate work culture, relocate from metropolitan areas to small towns and rural places and attempt to reorient themselves to work and family obligations. ...
From sweet potatoes to God Almighty: Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog
(American Ethnologist, 2007-08)
Recognized as a principle figure in ecological anthropology, Roy Rappaport is best known for Pigs for the Ancestors (1968). His work in the anthropology of religion has received less attention. Least acknowledged is ...