"Anthropology, Physical" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The comparative science dealing with the physical characteristics of humans as related to their origin, evolution, and development in the total environment.
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D000885
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.076.368
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Anthropology, Physical" by people in Profiles.
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Hernandez M, Perry GH. Scanning the human genome for "signatures" of positive selection: Transformative opportunities and ethical obligations. Evol Anthropol. 2021 Mar; 30(2):113-121.
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Steiper ME, Grube NT, Gagnon CM. Elevated diversity in loci linked to facial morphology is consistent with the hypothesis that individual facial recognition is important across hominoids. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2021 04; 174(4):785-791.
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Batai K, Hooker S, Kittles RA. Leveraging genetic ancestry to study health disparities. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2021 06; 175(2):363-375.
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Somerville AD, Goldstein PS, Baitzel SI, Bruwelheide KL, Dahlstedt AC, Yzurdiaga L, Raubenheimer S, Knudson KJ, Schoeninger MJ. Diet and gender in the Tiwanaku colonies: Stable isotope analysis of human bone collagen and apatite from Moquegua, Peru. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2015 Nov; 158(3):408-22.
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Sparks CS, Wood JW, Johnson PL. Infant mortality and intra-household competition in the Northern Islands of Orkney, Scotland, 1855-2001. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2013 Jun; 151(2):191-201.
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Torres JB, Stone AC, Kittles R. An anthropological genetic perspective on Creolization in the Anglophone Caribbean. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2013 May; 151(1):135-43.
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Sparks CS, Jantz RL. A reassessment of human cranial plasticity: Boas revisited. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 12; 99(23):14636-9.
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Parra EJ, Kittles RA, Argyropoulos G, Pfaff CL, Hiester K, Bonilla C, Sylvester N, Parrish-Gause D, Garvey WT, Jin L, McKeigue PM, Kamboh MI, Ferrell RE, Pollitzer WS, Shriver MD. Ancestral proportions and admixture dynamics in geographically defined African Americans living in South Carolina. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2001 Jan; 114(1):18-29.
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Lozanoff S, Sciulli PW, Schneider KN. Third trochanter incidence and metric trait covariation in the human femur. J Anat. 1985 Dec; 143:149-59.
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Plato CC, Greulich WW, Garruto RM, Yanagihara R. Cortical bone loss and measurements of the second metacarpal bone: II. Hypodense bone in postwar Guamanian children. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1984 Jan; 63(1):57-63.