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Heritability and components of phenotypic expression in skin reflectance of Mestizos from the Peruvian Lowlands
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1981-06)
Skin reflectance was measured on the inner upper arm and forehead of a sample of 209 Mestizos ranging in age from 2 to 64 years living in the town of Lamas in the Eastern Peruvian Lowlands. The sample consisted of 43 ...
Taking culture seriously: Making the Social survey Ethnographic
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 2008-01)
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, this essay takes ...
Aboriginal man adapting. By R.L. Kirk. New York: The Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. 1981. vii + 229 pp., figures, tables, references, indices. $59.00 (cloth)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1982-10)
No Abstract.
Magnitude of sex differences in dichotomous ossification sequences of the hand and wrist
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1975-01)
Among the dichotomous (present/absent:absent/present) ossinication sequences individually ascertained in 3059 boys and girls with at least one but not more than 27 ossification centers of the hand and wrist, 54 such sequences ...
A radiographic standard of reference for the growing knee. By S. I. Pyle and N. L. Hoerr. 135 pp. and 31 ill. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois. 1969. $6.25
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1970-09)
No Abstract.
The selective advantage of complex language
(Elsevier, 1986)
The progressive evolution of the biological capacity to learn and use highly complex language is unlikely to be explained primarily by any subsistence or technological advantages that language offers. Rather, language ...
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 ...