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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Biological anthropology"”.
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Exploring Cranial Macromorphoscopics from Adult Computed Tomography Scans Using an Anatomage Table
Virtual anthropology has become popularized within the past decade providing ease of access to anthropological data and increasing the diversity of digital skeletal samples. This paper uses computed tomography scans of adults to test the efficacy of using the protocol developed by Stull et al. …
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Explorations into Appendicular Ontogeny using a Cross-Sectional, Contemporary U.S. Sample
… have been restricted by sample availability in biological anthropology. Alternatively, the same source of longitudinal data has been repeatedly used, which does not reflect the variability of growth and development (i.e., ontogeny) or the United States (U.S.) population. Small and/or homogenous …
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A quantitative genetic approach to study the ontogeny and evolution of ecogeographic patterns in the human limb skeleton
… in modern humans is an important topic in biological anthropology. There is a great amount of diversity in the geographic distribution of human limb morphology (shape, dimensions, and proportions). This dissertation seeks to understand how evolution has shaped this diversity in the human …
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Reconstructing Soft Tissues of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids using Comparative Anatomy of Modern Humans & Great Apes
… also help to guide public attention towards biological anthropology and to disseminate scientific facts about human evolution. Unfortunately, sufficient attention has not been paid to the inconsistencies in the depictions presented nor how facial approximation techniques may be affecting the …
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Mildred Trotter: A Biography and Alternative History of Physical Anthropology
… the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology. The monograph incorporates a revised and expanded version of a 2019 peer-reviewed journal article, “Women’s Experiences in Early Physical Anthropology.” As a unified whole, this interdisciplinary work brings together a biography of a …
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An Assessment of the use of Photogrammetry in Cranial Metric and Non-Metric Studies
<p>Methods in biological anthropology have made tremendous leaps in recent years and with the increasing rise in technology there is no reason to suspect that this trend will be decreasing. Particularly methods in 3D digitization have not only increased but have also become more accessible in …
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Skeletal evidence of the social persona. Life, death and society in early medieval Alamannic communities
… dialogue between the disciplines of archaeology, biological anthropology and socio-cultural sciences. A bioarchaeology of identity explores the Alamanni of Pleidelsheim and Neresheim via their funerary and skeletal evidence, allowing for the factor of different environments that influence the …
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Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate
… by evolutionary psychology: Barbara King in biological anthropology, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in empirical linguistics and Annette Karmiloff-Smith in developmental psychology. These researchers are also involved in cognitive science investigations that bear on evolutionary psychology's …
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Towards a better interpretation of bone morphology: The effect of obesity on bone
… of obesity on bone are poorly understood in biological anthropology. By using an experimental approach, we hope to achieve several aims and objectives designed to further our understanding of how obesity affects bone health. The aims also look at trying to understand the implications of the …
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Assessment and improvement of current sex estimation standards for application in Holocene San and Khoekhoe populations
Skeletal sex estimation is important in biological anthropology. Population-specific sex estimation standards do not exist for southern African Holocene San and Khoekhoe (HS-K) population. Due to their markedly small stature, skeletal gracility, and physically active lifestyle, they exhibit reduced …
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Dental Variation in Central Mexican Latinx Individuals
… odontometric crown and cervical measurements. Biological distance, or biodistance statistics, fuzzy c-means analyses, and linear discriminant function analysis were utilized to analyze this variation. The Latinx population has been shaped through 500 years of microevolutionary forces due to …
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage.
… and 45 burials from Gloucester Infirmary (GI). Biological profiling was carried out to determine sex, estimate age-at-death and stature of individuals to aid in palaeoepidemiological study. This information was compared to the biological information obtained from the 1784-1837 burial register of …
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Identification of the deceased: A retrospective review of forensic anthropology Cape Town casework
… skeletonised or burnt. In this regard, Forensic Anthropology Cape Town (FACT), a service provider at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has assisted with identification. Data pertaining to anthropologically analysed cases in the Western Cape (WC) province is lacking and little is known about the …
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A Biological Distance Analysis of 19th -20th -Century Individuals From Myanmar
… anthropological research that explores the biological diversity of the country's human population. As such, the current dissertation study aims to: 1) examine the biological diversity in a sample of individuals belonging to a cranial collection obtained from Burma over a century ago (the …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… interests answer a broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how bio-cultural commitments may rescale the marginal benefit of an act; a rational economic actor …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… interests answer a broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how bio-cultural commitments may rescale the marginal benefit of an act; a rational economic actor …
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Infection and Complexity Embodied on Enamel: Oral Health and Dental Pathology at Ancón, Peru
This dissertation begins with a central question: how do you reconstruct community life from a collection that was never built to preserve it? Focusing on the Ancón skeletal assemblage curated at the Field Museum of Natural History, it develops a biocultural history from a collection shaped by …
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An automated computer-assisted approximation of the nose in South Africans from CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) scans
Each year in the Gauteng province of South Africa, approximately 1300 bodies are incinerated without a known identity (Bloom, 2015; Krüger et al., 2018). Because of various socio-economic reasons, identification is not always possible with conventional methods such as DNA comparisons and …
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The Mechanics and Influence of the Foot-Ground Interaction During Bipedal Walking
This dissertation explores one of the most ubiquitous aspects of human daily life: the interaction of the foot with the ground while walking bipedally in our environment. Specifically, this dissertation examines the mechanics of the foot-ground interaction during walking outside of the confines of …
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Through the layers of the Ethiopian genome: a survey of human genetic variation based on genome-wide genotyping and re-sequencing data
Understanding our evolutionary history as a species has since long been one of the most attracting and controversial themes of the scientific investigation. From its geographical position, outstanding fossil record and richness of human diversity, the Horn of Africa and, particularly, the Ethiopian …
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