American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 12Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1929 - Anthropology Vols. 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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anthropometry average brain breadth Buriats cancer cent cephalic index chest girth circumference coefficients of variability colored computed correlation cristal diphtheria diseases distance ectoderm epiphysis female crania figure Frankfort plane glabella greater Hamann Museum female Hamann Museum male Hamann Museum negro Hamann Museum white Herskovits Hrdlička indicated JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL left White Male leg length less lower male Negro male White maximum measurements Museum male negro Museum male white nasal height nasion nasion-occipital length negro crania Negro Female 32 Negro Male 100 Old American pattern pelvis PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY pigmentation pituitary point post-porion length pre-porion length probable errors racial difference ranges of variation relatively ridge sexual factor sitting height skin skull spine standard deviations stature stem length Stock Stock-linked TABLE TABULATION OF DIMENSIONS tion torso triradius vertebral column vertical vital capacity white and negro White Female 36 White Male 100 women
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Page 488 - It also showed how, by backcrossing with one of the parent races, a cross quickly becomes swamped, while the "pygmies", found in Basutoland, testify how recessives can and do crop up, long after the cross with the primary recessive form has taken place. Nobody, who looks at the matter in an unprejudiced way, can possibly believe that the different races of mankind in S. Africa or elsewhere have arisen by mutation. A Bushman mutates as little so as to form a Bantu, as a European does or the reverse....
Page 488 - ... recessives can and do crop up, long after the cross with the primary recessive form has taken place. Nobody, who looks at the matter in an unprejudiced way, can possibly believe that the different races of mankind in S. Africa or elsewhere have arisen by mutation. A Bushman mutates as little so as to form a Bantu, as a European does or the reverse. By segregation of hybrids however new races — fi the Masarwa doubtless — arise and, as S. Africa offers especially good chances to study this...
Page 518 - In the detailed organization it was decided to follow, in the essentials, the American Anthropological Association. It was further decided that the new Association shall cooperate, to the limit of possibilities, with the American Anthropological Association; with Section H of the AAAS; and with The American Association of Anatomists. A still further basic principle of the new organization will be the fullest possible support of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, which will be its official...
Page 214 - The nervous system, among all the organs of the body, manifests a high degree of autonomy, in spite of its great impressionability. It is remarkably resistant to adversity, even to malnutrition. This relative invulnerability gives it a certain stability in the somatic competition between the organ systems. It tends to grow in obedience to the inborn determiners, whether saddled with handicap or favored with opportunity. For some such biological reason, the general course of mental maturation is only...
Page 471 - Palm and sole studies, IX. The morphology of the hypothenar of the hand; a study on the variation and degeneration of a typical pattern.
Page 354 - With wounds there is less suppuration. Mental defects among Negroes oftener take the form of idiocy, and cases of acute mania run sooner into imbecility. The Negro, by and large, is of a more cheerful and carefree temperament than the white man. The rural Negro seldom commits suicide...
Page 493 - ... like this: — The three aspects under which groups of human beings can be considered — their physique or race, their speech, and their life or civilization — do not yield coincident pictures for the Philippines. They must therefore be reviewed separately, as in so many other parts of the world. Racially, three varieties of man occur in the islands, besides the intrusive Europeans and Chinese of recent centuries. One of these three varieties, the Negrito, is of negroid affinities and a dwarf...
Page 409 - No. 53. The Medical Problems of Flying (including reports on oxygen want, selection of candidates for flying, sense of balance, and flying strain). [1920.] 6s. (6s. 4d.). No. 84. The Application of the Air Force Physical Efficiency Tests to Men and Women.
Page 352 - Bee otto no. 1721. REFERENCES BY COUNTRIES AFRICA 2039. Work, Monroe N. A bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America.
Page 517 - December 28, about twenty anthropologists and anatomists, and each of these individually and unreservedly expressed himself in favor of the founding of a special association for physical anthropology. There was then elected a committee of organization with power to act, composed of Drs. Fay Cooper Cole, Charles H. Danforth, George A. Dorsey, William K. Gregory, Ernest A. Hooton, Ale5 Hrdlic•ka and Robert J.