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Anthropology, memoirs. Field Museum of Natural History
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Chicago Natural History Museum. +6 more
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The relationship between form and function of the carnivore mandible
Abstract Dietary morphology diversified extensively in Carnivoraformes (living Carnivora and their stem relatives) during the Cenozoic (the last 66 million years) as they evolved to capture, handle, and process new animal and plant diets. We used 3D geometric morphometrics, mechanical advantage, and finite element analysis to test the evolutionary ...
Charles J. Salcido, P. David Polly
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Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has become a well‐established method for dietary inference and reconstruction in both extant and extinct mammals and other tetrapods. As the volume of available data continues to grow, researchers could benefit from combining published data from various studies to perform meta‐analyses.
Daniela E. Winkler, Mugino O. Kubo
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Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li +12 more
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Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty
In ancient cultures without a writing system, it is difficult to infer the basis of status and rank. Here the authors analyse ancient DNA from nine presumed elite individuals buried successively over a 300-year period at Chaco Canyon, and show evidence ...
Douglas J. Kennett +13 more
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Art/anthropology: Practices of difference and translation
Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, 31 October-1 November 2007 The aim of this symposium was to explore collaboration across the disciplines of art and anthropology, and to develop a framework for a future research ‘laboratory’ on ...
Laine, Anna,
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Abstract Domesticated European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have long been chosen as laboratory model organisms. Despite this, there has been no definitive study of the vertebral musculature of wild rabbits. Relevant descriptions of well‐studied veterinary model mammals (such as dogs) are generally applicable, but not appropriate for a species ...
Nuttakorn Taewcharoen +3 more
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Leaflet / Field Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology
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Field Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology.
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Problems with the census conception of ethnic group: an anthropological perspective
From the perspective of social anthropology, this paper examines the collection and analysis of census data on ethnic group membership. It identifies a fundamental problem lying in the census's attempt to enumerate a subjective identity.
Barber, Keith
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A debt to the revolution. Ways of studying the history of Portuguese anthropology
The history of anthropology in Portugal began to be systematized after the Carnation Revolution of 1974, as a result of which the dictatorship fell in the country.
Cachado, R., De Almeida, S. V.
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