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The Measures of man : methodologies in biological anthropology
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The article was published on 1976-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biological anthropology.read more
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The rate of morphological evolution in mammals from the standpoint of the neutral expectation
TL;DR: The data suggest that, immediately after reproductive isolation, most lineages diverge morphologically at approximately the neutral rate and that this rate declines over evolutionary time, which suggests that the apparently rapid rates of morphological evolution in modern manrelative to other mammals and in mammals relative to other vertebrates are artifacts of temporal scaling.
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The Genetic Structure of Subdivided Human Populations
TL;DR: Much of the theory of population genetics is based on the assumption that populations are panmictic, but while this may be nearly true in some instances, most populations of interest exhibit some form of subdivision.
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Statistical genetic approaches to human adaptability.
TL;DR: A unified statistical genetic methodology for human adaptability studies that permits evaluation of the inheritance of quantitative trait response to environmental stressors is presented.
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Medicolegal anthropology in France.
M Yaşar İşcan,Gérald Quatrehomme +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that there is a need for cooperation between the forensic physician and anthropologist to further research and encourages anthropologists to carry out research and practice that can fulfill the needs of the medicolegal system of the country.
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The Journey to Freedom: Maroon Forebears in Southern Venezuela
TL;DR: The Aripaeno forebears as discussed by the authors explored their journey to freedom, which involved historical processes of ethnogenesis within a diverse and complex ecological and cultural scenario presented by the Guianas during the eighteenth century.
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Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa1
TL;DR: The sickle cell gene is found in a large and rather continuous region of the Old World and in populations which have recently emigrated from this region, while it is almost completely absent from an even larger region ofThe Old World which stretches from Northern Europe to Australia.