American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 13A. R. Liss, 1929 - Anthropology Volumes for 1930- include the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (sometimes issued as separately paged supplements); later issued separately as: Program of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1991- (alternates supplement numbering with: Yearbook of physical anthropology). |
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Alaska Indian Aleš Hrdlička American negro Anthrop Arikara Australian average facial height average facial width blood groups body stem brachycephalic brain breadth breadth-height index bregma Canadian Arctic Expedition cephalic index child chimpanzee Coefficient of variation comparable material correlation Crown-rump Davenport and Steggerda decoloration diameter Distribution dolichocephalic endocranial casts epicanthic fold epicanthus Eskimo crania Eskimo males Eskimo U. S. N. Museum female crania fetal figures finger girth Greenland hair head Hominidae Hrdlička human INCISOR indices investigation JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL Lawrence Island length-breadth length-height index male crania Manoilov's masculine maximum Mean and probable millimeters Frequency MOLAR Mongol Mongolian Mongolian fold nasal nasion nose PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Piltdown probable error races racial types reaction reagents Scottish crania sexual factor sitting height skull stadiometer standard deviation standing height stem length TABLE Tasmanian tion upper Western Eskimo Wilder and Pfeiffer
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Page 4 - Mongoloid characters in diseased children and in healthy adult Europeans, the generic characters which separate one kind of ape from another, the bodily and mental features which mark the various races of mankind — are best explained by the theory I am supporting, namely, that the conformation of man and ape and of every vertebrate animal is determined by a common growth-controlling mechanism which is resident in a system of small but complex glandular organs.
Page 193 - ... sharp edge of the acromial process to the floor was considered the acromion height. Care was taken that the shoulders were horizontal. The arm was held immovable and in the same position by the observer's left hand while this and the next three measurements were taken. 5. Right radial height 2 — The point for this measurement was found at the dimple of the elbow; the exact measurement was considered the space between the upper end of the radius and the lower end of the humerus. 6.
Page 196 - The graduated part of the scale faces the observer. The head of the subject is placed in the Frankfort horizontal, the instrument is placed in the vertical plane and lifted until it is resisted by the bony ring. As the graduated rod drops, it is read, and the minimum reading is recorded. This is the head height.
Page 176 - EM 1929. A study of the age correlations of the cuticular scales, medullas, and shaft diameters of human head hair.
Page 128 - Die Individualität des Blutes in der Biologie, in der Klinik und in der gerichtlichen Medizin. Nach der umgearbeiteten italienischen Auflage übersetzt und ergänzt durch einen Anhang: Die forensisch-medizinische Verwertbarkeit der Blutgruppendiagnose nach deutschem Recht v.
Page 254 - ... obscuring the mouth. In the second place, the nose is straight-lined and the nostrils open downward. In the third place, the upper eyelid has a line immediately above it made by the turning in of the upper lid under the fold above. This distinguishes the European from the Mongolian eye. In the latter the lid disappears beneath the fold above, only the lashes project, and the inner end of the upper lid is attached below the inner end of the lower lid, which passes under it. The lids are occluded...
Page 4 - Never again," said Professor Parsons in his Presidential address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association...
Page 93 - The pupil -dilating effect of cocaine, euphthalmine, 1_— ephedrine , dl_-ephedrine, and d_-pseudoephedrine has been compared in Caucasians, Chinese, and negroes, both in diffuse daylight and under controlled illumination with accurate measurements. Caucasians are the most, and negroes the least susceptible to the mydriatic action of the drugs under investigation - the Chinese being intermediate.
Page 78 - Chairman of the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, for arranging funds for making a large collection of ethnographica both from the Chin Hills and from Burma proper.
Page 168 - WINGATE 1923 Cranial capacity and linear dimensions in White and Negro. Am. J. Phys.