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The case of Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877-1939): A German-Jewish geneticist, eugenicist, twin researcher, and victim of the Nazis [PDF]

, 2006
This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into developments and professional relationships in the biological sciences in Germany in the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Nazi seizure of ...
Braund, James, Sutton, Douglas G.
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A Generalised Neural Network Model to Estimate Sex from Cranial Metric Traits: A Robust Training and Testing Approach

Applied Sciences, 2022
The morphology of the human cranium allows for reconstructing important information about the identity of an individual, such as age, ancestry, sex, and health status.
Antonietta Del Bove, Alessio Veneziano
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Physical Anthropology [PDF]

Science, 1897
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Long-term changes in fat distribution in children and adolescents aged 3-18 from Krakow (Poland), within the last 30 years (from 1983 to 2010)

Anthropological Review, 2018
In Poland, even in the late twentieth century, the problem of obesity was not significant. However, recent studies have shown an increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity.
Kryst Łukasz, Woronkowicz Agnieszka, Kowal Małgorzata, Sobiecki Jan   +3 more
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A taste of the unfamiliar: understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England [PDF]

, 2010
Using findings from semi-structured interviews with international postgraduate students in England, this paper explores the meanings attached to the food they eat in a new culture.
Abraído-Lanza, Brown, Brown, Brown, Burns, Cushner, Cushner, Dovey, Edwards, Finkelstein, Furnham, Furukawa, Garza-Guerrero, Giddens, Gordon-Larsen, Gosden, Hall, Hall, Heather Hartwell, Henry, Himmelgreen, Hofstede, Ikeda, Jamal, John Edwards, Kedia, Kim, Lara, Leonard, Locher, Lorraine Brown, Louie, Mason, McDonald, McIntosh, Neuhouser, Okorocha, O’Reilly, Pan, Potter, Ryan, Saleh, Simmel, Simmons, Triandis, Wandel, Ward, Warde, Warren, Zwingmann   +49 more
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Sex bias in celiac disease: XWAS and monocyte eQTLs in women identify TMEM187 as a functional candidate gene

Biology of Sex Differences, 2023
Background Celiac disease (CeD) is an immune-mediated disorder that develops in genetically predisposed individuals upon gluten consumption. HLA risk alleles explain 40% of the genetic component of CeD, so there have been continuing efforts to uncover ...
Alba Hernangomez-Laderas, Ariadna Cilleros-Portet, Silvia Martínez Velasco, Sergi Marí, María Legarda, Bárbara Paola González-García, Carlos Tutau, Iraia García-Santisteban, Iñaki Irastorza, Nora Fernandez-Jimenez, Jose Ramon Bilbao   +10 more
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Physical anthropology and the description of the 'savage' in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition of 1882 Antropologia física e a descrição do 'selvagem' na Exposição Antropológica Brasileira de 1882

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2010
This paper discusses attempts to popularize scientific knowledge about anthropology through exhibitions of natives in the United States and Brazil from the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth century.
Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, Charbel Niño El-Hani   +1 more
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Twenty years of the Centre for Physical Anthropology [PDF]

, 2013
The article provides an overview of the activities of the Centre for PhysicalAnthropology at the University of Tartu from its foundation in 1993 to ...
Kaarma, Helje
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Female warriors and ‘cross-dressing’ in early medieval Bavaria?

Archeologické Rozhledy, 2017
The graves of the Merovingian period in Central Europe show typical grave inventories which allow us to determine the sex (and not only the gender) of the buried persons with high accuracy.
Tobias Gärtner
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Twenty-four years of the Centre for Physical Anthropology [PDF]

, 2017
The article provides an overview of the activities of the Centre for Physical Anthropology at the University of Tartu from its foundation in 1993 to the ...
Kaarma, Helje, Kasmel, Jaan, Lintsi, Mart, Saluste, Liidia, Stamm, Raini, Tiit, Ene-Margit, Toomsalu, Maie, Veldre, Gudrun   +7 more
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