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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"post-cranial"”.
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Analysis of Post-Cranial Traits for the Assessment of Biological Distance among Temporally Distinct New World Populations of African Descent
<p>This investigation examines change in post-cranial osteometric markers in temporally distinct New World populations of African ancestry: Newton Plantation series (17th-19th century Barbados; N = 16); two subsamples from the Hamann-Todd (HT) series (U.S.) based on birth year, 1865-1900 (N = 66) …
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A New Species of Teleoceras from the Late Miocene Gray Fossil Site, with Comparisons to Other North American Hemphillian Species
… the youngest populations. Linear measurements of post-cranial elements indicate proportional differences between <em>Teleoceras</em> from the Gray Fossil Site and those from other Hemphillian localities. These differences are more pronounced in the elements of the forelimb than in those of the …
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Kinetics and Energetics of Feeding Behaviors in Daubentonia madagascariensis
… modifications of bite forces using the post-cranial musculature. To do this I carried out two experiments measuring the kinetics of wood gnawing and the energetics of feeding behaviors. The main results of these experiments were: 1) Daubentonia does not generate relatively high magnitude …
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Pigs from six medieval sites in Flanders: A multiple methodological approach to the study of their husbandry development
… of pathologies or anomalies in both teeth and post-cranial elements, set alongside more traditional examinations of both mandibular and post-cranial elements. This provided an in-depth consideration of how recent scientific developments and established standard zooarchaeological techniques …
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Documentation of Missouri white-tailed deer chronoclines : implications for archaeology, paleoecology, and conservation biology
… in zooarchaeological collections. Using post-cranial, weight-bearing bone measurements as a proxy for body size, this study determines that stunting occurred from prehistoric to modern times in Missouri white-tailed deer. Forage availability and intraspecific competition were the major …
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Subsistence Change and Emergent Social Inequality in an Early Complex Hunter-Gatherer Winter Village: A Zooarchaeological Assessment of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), Middle Fraser B.C.
… through time. Also, while equal distributions of cranial and post-cranial carcass elements are present during early phases of the village, through time they shift to primarily post-cranial elements by the late Bridge River 3 Period. Inferences of local resource depression of such …
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Subsistence Change and Emergent Social Inequality in an Early Complex Hunter-Gatherer Winter Village: A Zooarchaeological Assessment of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), Middle Fraser B.C.
… through time. Also, while equal distributions of cranial and post-cranial carcass elements are present during early phases of the village, through time they shift to primarily post-cranial elements by the late Bridge River 3 Period. Inferences of local resource depression of such …
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Fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of developmental instability in Arikara bioarchaeological assemblages
… of the Coalescent tradition. Specifically, cranial morphometric, cranial nonmetric, and post-cranial metric measurements have been used to determine if meaningful patterns in the magnitude of FA across variants of the Coalescent tradition can be detected. The data that form the basis of this …
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Using a mouse model to understand the effect of hybridization on skeletal and pelage trait variation in mammalian hybrids
… show increased atypical non-metric dental and cranial trait variation thought to be the result of interactions between parental genomes which have diverged for ectodermal trait development (including hair and tooth development). There were also differences between hybridizing hominin groups for …
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Ancestral and Sex Estimation Using E.A. Marino’s Analysis of the First Cervical Vertebra Applied to Three Modern Groups
… Ancestry is most commonly assessed using cranial traits. Sex is assessed using the os coxa and cranial traits. Post-cranial methods for identifying individuals are needed in the field because cranial and pelvic elements are often broken and incomplete. Examining other elements can increase …
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Ancestral and Sex Estimation Using E.A. Marino’s Analysis of the First Cervical Vertebra Applied to Three Modern Groups
… Ancestry is most commonly assessed using cranial traits. Sex is assessed using the os coxa and cranial traits. Post-cranial methods for identifying individuals are needed in the field because cranial and pelvic elements are often broken and incomplete. Examining other elements can increase …
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Unravelling the palaeobiology of the dinosaurian post crania and associated carnivore teeth from the early jurassic, Elliot formation in the Eastern Cape
… led by Dr Billy de Klerk. The specimen comprises post cranial material including ribs, gastralia, vertebrae of the mid-posterior section of the tail, and a complete left pes. Associated with the specimen are three teeth of contemporaneous carnivores. Here, we describe the skeletal anatomy of AM …
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Life history, growth and dental development in young primates: a study using captive rhesus macaques
… relationship between dental development and post-cranial somatic growth. Dental development together with cranial growth appear conservative and seem to progress on a set course not related to other aspects of somatic growth. The role of the parents, the social group and mother-infant …
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Functional adaptation of mandibular trabecular bone and its association with diet: Inter- and intra-specific comparisons among Homo sapiens, papionins, and mice.
… been analysed in a variety of contexts in the post-cranial skeleton and the primate mandible in relation to both locomotor functions and FMPs. However, there is little research into trabecular bone diversity in relation to intraspecific variation of masticatory function. Understanding how …
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Phylogeny and Evolution of Locomotor Modes in Carnivoramorpha (Mammalia)
… the first detailed description of the only known postcranial skeletal elements of "Miacis" uintensis, found to differ markedly from previously described "miacids" (a paraphyletic assemblage of early fossil Carnivoramorphans), invalidating the notion that all "miacids" were very similar in their …
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Individual variability in the behaviour and morphology of larval Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua, L.)
… by this change. Growth of the head and the post cranium was highly variable, especially in the latter stages of larval development and investment in head growth relative to post-cranial growth increased over the first two thirds of larval development, remaining constant thereafter. The …