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Professional Organizations

Societies
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
www.physanth.org

American Society of Primatologists
http://www.asp.org/

American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/

American Anthropological Association
http://www.aaanet.org/

Paleoanthropology Society
http://www.paleoanthro.org/

Paleopathology Association
http://www.paleopathology.org/

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
http://www.vertpaleo.org/

American Academy of Forensic Sciences
http://www.aafs.org/

American Association of Clinical Anatomists
http://www.clinicalanatomy.org/journal.html

American Association of Anatomists
http://www.anatomy.org/

 

Journals
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/28130

Journal of Human Evolution
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00472484

Journal of Archaeological Sciences
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03054403

American Journal of Primatology
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/34629

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/5488

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-journals-list&issn=0272-4634

Evolutionary Anthropology
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/38641

Journal of Forensic Sciences
http://journalsip.astm.org/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/jofs_home.html

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

www.pnas.org

 

Misc. Resources
Anthropology in the news
http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news.htm

Osteointeractive
http://medstat.med.utah.edu/kw/osteo/index2.html

Primate Info Net
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/

Skulls, skeletons, and skeletal articulations bibliography
http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/naturalist_center/biblio/skulls.htm

The E-Skeletons project
http://www.eskeletons.org/

Publications

    • Fri May 17
    • 5-HTTLPR genetic diversity and mode of subsistence in Native Americans
    • The relationship between the "individualism-collectivism" and the serotonin transporter functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR), suggested in the previous reports, was tested in Native South Amerindian populations. A total of 170 individuals from 21 populations were genotyped for the 5-HTTLPR alleles. For comparative purposes, these populations were classified as individualistic (recent history of hunter-gathering) or collectivistic (agriculturalists). These two groups showed an almost identical S allele frequency (75 and 76%, respectively). The analysis of molecular variance showed no structural
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    • Fri May 17
    • Brief communication: A midtarsal (midfoot) break in the human foot
    • The absence of a midtarsal break has long been regarded as a derived feature of the human foot. Humans possess a rigid midfoot that acts as an efficient lever during the propulsive phase of bipedal gait. Non-human primates, in contrast, have a more mobile midfoot that is adaptive for tree climbing. Here, we report plantar pressure and video evidence that a small percentage of modern humans (n = 32/398) possess both elevated lateral midfoot pressures and
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    • Tue May 14
    • Odontometric determination of sex at mound 72, Cahokia
    • The mortuary context of Mound 72 at the Cahokia site is one of the most unusual ever described in prehistoric North America. Previous skeletal analyses suggested that four large mass graves within the mound contained only female skeletons. However, these findings were complicated by extremely poor bone preservation that limited the number of skeletal observations that could be made. Furthermore, most skeletons were aged in the 15-25 year range, a time when sexually dimorphic bony traits
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    • Thu May 2
    • The convergent evolution of blue iris pigmentation in primates took distinct molecular paths
    • How many distinct molecular paths lead to the same phenotype? One approach to this question has been to examine the genetic basis of convergent traits, which likely evolved repeatedly under a shared selective pressure. We investigated the convergent phenotype of blue iris pigmentation, which has arisen independently in four primate lineages: humans, blue-eyed black lemurs, Japanese macaques, and spider monkeys. Characterizing the phenotype across these species, we found that the variation within the blue-eyed subsets of
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    • Thu May 2
    • Sexual dimorphism of the bony labyrinth: A new age-independent method
    • Currently in physical anthropology there is a need for reliable methods of sex estimation for immature individuals and highly fragmented remains. This study develops a sex estimation technique from discriminant function analysis of the bony labyrinth as it matures before puberty and can survive taphonomic conditions that would destroy most other skeletal material. The bony labyrinth contains the organs of hearing and balance. For this reason biologists and paleoanthropologists have undertaken research in this area to
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    • Thu May 2
    • Holocene footprints in Namibia: The influence of substrate on footprint variability
    • We report a Holocene human and animal footprint site from the Namib Sand Sea, south of Walvis Bay, Namibia. Using these data, we explore intratrail footprint variability associated with small variations in substrate properties using a "whole foot" analytical technique developed for the studies in human ichnology. We demonstrate high levels of intratrail variability as a result of variations in grain size, depositional moisture content, and the degree of sediment disturbance, all of which determine the
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    • Tue Apr 30
    • A resampling approach and implications for estimating the phalangeal index from unassociated hand bones in fossil primates
    • Primate fossil assemblages often have metacarpals and phalanges from which functional/behavioral interpretations may be inferred. For example, intrinsic hand proportions can indicate hand function and substrate use. But, estimates of intrinsic hand proportions from unassociated hand elements can be imperfect due to digit misattribution. Although isolated metacarpals can be identified to a specific digit, phalanges are difficult to assign to a specific ray. We used a resampling approach to evaluate how estimates of intrinsic hand proportions
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    • Tue Apr 30
    • Comparing von Luschan skin color tiles and modern spectrophotometry for measuring human skin pigmentation
    • Prior to the introduction of reflectance spectrophotometry into anthropological field research during the 1950s, human skin color was most commonly classified by visual skin color matching using the von Luschan tiles, a set of 36 standardized, opaque glass tiles arranged in a chromatic scale. Our goal was to establish a conversion formula between the tile-based color matching method and modern reflectance spectrophotometry to make historical and contemporary data comparable. Skin pigmentation measurements were taken on the
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