Variation in limb proportions between Jomon foragers and Yayoi agriculturalists from prehistoric Japan

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-174

  Temple, Daniel H ^a   Auerbach, Benjamin M ^b   Nakatsukasa, Masato ^c   Sciulli, Paul W ^a   Larsen, Clark Spencer ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allen's rule; Canalization; Ecogeography; Migration; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIMB; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 52149111121     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20853     Document Type: Article

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