Ancestry estimation: Advances and limitations in forensic applications

DE Flouri, A Alifragki… - … and Reports in …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Forensic anthropologists are faced with many challenges one of which is setting the grounds
for the assessment of an unknown individual's population affinity, an essential element for …

Sex differences in the pelvis did not evolve de novo in modern humans

B Fischer, NDS Grunstra, E Zaffarini… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
It is commonly assumed that the strong sexual dimorphism of the human pelvis evolved for
delivering the relatively large human foetuses. Here we compare pelvic sex differences …

Sexual dimorphism and allometry in human scapula shape

ECS Lee, RL Lawrence, MJ Rainbow - Journal of Anatomy, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Scapula shape is highly variable across humans and appears to be sexually dimorphic—
differing significantly between biological males and females. However, previous …

Testing the reliability of the rearticulation of osteological primate pelves in comparative morphological studies

N Torres‐Tamayo, TC Rae, E Hirasaki… - The Anatomical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of human pelvic form is primarily studied using disarticulated osteological
material of living and fossil primates that need rearticulation to approximate anatomical …

[PDF][PDF] Patterns of integration and modularity in the primate skeleton: a review

N von Cramon-Taubadel - Journal of anthropological sciences, 2022‏ - par.nsf.gov
The question of how complex morphologies evolve, given constraints imposed by genetic,
developmental and functional factors, has been a topic of inquiry for many decades. In the …

Sex classification using the human sacrum: Geometric morphometrics versus conventional approaches

VA Krenn, NM Webb, C Fornai, M Haeusler - Plos one, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
The human pelvis shows marked sexual dimorphism that stems from the conflicting selective
pressures of bipedal locomotion and parturition. The sacrum is thought to reflect this …

Modelling of human torso shape variation inferred by geometric morphometrics

M Thelwell, A Bullas, A Kühnapfel, J Hart, P Ahnert… - Plos one, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
Traditional body measurement techniques are commonly used to assess physical health;
however, these approaches do not fully represent the complex shape of the human body …

Did population differences in human pelvic form evolve by drift or selection?

P Mitteroecker, NDS Grunstra… - … et mémoires de la …, 2021‏ - journals.openedition.org
Pelvic dimensions differ, on average, among modern human populations. Some recent
studies have reported that population differences in pelvic form evolved mainly by neutral …

An integrative approach to examining the influences of size, phylogeny, and locomotion on os coxae shape variation in primates

KL Lewton - American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Aspects of three‐dimensional (3D) pelvis shape are associated with body size
and adaptations to locomotor behaviors in primates, while the effect of phylogeny is less well …

Three-dimensional geometric morphometrics of thorax-pelvis covariation and its potential for predicting the thorax morphology: A case study on Kebara 2 Neandertal

N Torres-Tamayo, S Schlager… - Journal of Human …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The skeletal torso is a complex structure of outstanding importance in understanding human
body shape evolution, but reconstruction usually entails an element of subjectivity as …