The vertical‐climbing account of the evolution of locomotor behavior and morphology in
hominid ancestry is reexamined in light of recent behavioral, anatomical, and …

Apes, members of the superfamily Hominoidea, possess a distinctive suite of anatomical
and behavioral characters which appear to have evolved relatively late and relatively …

Computerized tomography was done preoperatively on twenty shoulders (thirteen patients)
in which there were severe arthritic changes, to measure glenoid version. Ten of the twenty …

The positional behavior of habituated adult chimpanzees and baboons was observed for
784 hr in a year‐long study. Comparisons between species were made to establish the …

Simple ratios in which a measurement variable is divided by a size variable are commonly
used but known to be inadequate for eliminating size correlations from morphometric data …

Mechanical hypotheses concerning the function of chimpanzee anatomical specializations
are examined in light of recent positional behavior data. Arm‐hanging was the only common …

The authors roentgenographic technique provides precise assessment of the glenohumeral
relationship on the basis of two-plane examination. A group of 50 normal male subjects …

For this biologist, morphometrics is the characterization of biologically relevant forms and
patterns in ways that allow their quantitative handling: a considerably wider definition than …

Abstract Living South Asians have low lean tissue mass relative to height, which contributes
to their elevated type 2 diabetes susceptibility, particularly when accompanied by obesity …

Human birth has long been a topic of interest for cultural anthropologists inter-ested in the
way this biological event is culturally patterned (see, for example, Mead and Newton 1967; …