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Paradoxical bilateral asymmetry in bone size and bone mass in the hand
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1976-09)
Among 227 chronic renal disease patients, micrometer caliper radiogrammetric measurements of the second metacarpal at midshaft showed the right metacarpal to be larger (with greater bone area) and with a greater cortical ...
Paleodemographic aspects of the South African australopithecines. By Alan E. Mann. x + 171 pp., figures, tables, appendices, bibliography. University of Pennsylvnia Publications in Anthropology, no. 1, Philadelphia. 1975. $4.95 (paper)
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Early prenatal attainment of adult metacarpal-phalangeal rankings and proportions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1975-11)
As shown in 56 human embryos and fetuses between 15 and 104 mm in crown-rump length, “adult” metacarpal-phalangeal length rankings are attained by the seventh intrauterine week and near-adult bone-to-bone ratios or proportions ...
Secular trend in neonatal mortality in the mountain states
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Reviewing trends in neonatal mortality from 1957 to 1967, it is clear that neonatal and infant mortality has declined faster in the mountain states than in the low altitude states. Accordingly, the increased neonatal and ...
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(2008-08)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, in this talk I ...
Adaptive significance of small body size under poor socio-economic conditions in southern Peru
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1973-09)
The relationship of variations in parental body size to offspring survival has been studied in a population of poor socio-economic conditions (“Barriada”) in the southern highland of Peru. Parents of small body size, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Altitude and growth: A study of the patterns of physical growth of a high altitude Peruvian Quechua population
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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 ...