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    American Journal of Physical Anthropology: Volume 161, Issue 2

    187-378
    October 2016
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  • First Published: 20 September 2016

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Issue Information – Editorial Board

  • Pages: 187-188
  • First Published: 20 September 2016

Theory and Synthesis

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Basis for the gain and subsequent dilution of epidermal pigmentation during human evolution: The barrier and metabolic conservation hypotheses revisited

Peter M. Elias,  Mary L. Williams, 
  • Pages: 189-207
  • First Published: 21 June 2016

Research Articles

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In sickness and in death: Assessing frailty in human skeletal remains

Kathryn E. Marklein,  Rachael E. Leahy,  Douglas E. Crews, 
  • Pages: 208-225
  • First Published: 17 June 2016
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Spatial determinants of the mandibular curve of Spee in modern and archaic Homo

Myra F. Laird,  Nathan E. Holton,  Jill E. Scott,  Robert G. Franciscus,  Steven D. Marshall,  Thomas E. Southard, 
  • Pages: 226-236
  • First Published: 27 June 2016
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Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates

Elizabeth M. St. Clair,  Doug M. Boyer, 
  • Pages: 237-258
  • First Published: 17 June 2016
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Comparing primate crania: The importance of fossils

John G. Fleagle,  Christopher C. Gilbert,  Andrea L. Baden, 
  • Pages: 259-275
  • First Published: 12 July 2016
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Sexual dimorphism in growth in the relative length of the forearm and relative knee height during adolescence

Natalia Nowak-Szczepanska,  Slawomir Koziel, 
  • Pages: 276-282
  • First Published: 13 June 2016
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Turning the tables of sex distinction in craniofacial identification: Why females possess thicker facial soft tissues than males, not vice versa

Carl N. Stephan,  Rory Preisler,  Ozgur Bulut,  Mike Bennett, 
  • Pages: 283-295
  • First Published: 21 June 2016
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Constructing cranial ontogenetic trajectories: A comparison of growth, development, and chronological age proxies using a known-age sample of Macaca mulatta

Evan A. Simons,  Stephen R. Frost, 
  • Pages: 296-308
  • First Published: 21 June 2016
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Absolute humidity and the human nose: A reanalysis of climate zones and their influence on nasal form and function

Scott D. Maddux,  Todd R. Yokley,  Bohumil M. Svoma,  Robert G. Franciscus, 
  • Pages: 309-320
  • First Published: 04 July 2016
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Oral microbiome diversity among Cheyenne and Arapaho individuals from Oklahoma

Andrew T. Ozga,  Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan,  Raúl Y. Tito,  Alexandra J. Obregon-Tito,  Morris W. Foster,  Gloria Tallbull,  Paul Spicer,  Christina G. Warinner,  Cecil M. Lewis Jr, 
  • Pages: 321-327
  • First Published: 30 June 2016
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Determinants of terrestrial feeding in an arboreal primate: The case of the southern bamboo lemur (Hapalemur meridionalis)

Timothy M. Eppley,  Giuseppe Donati,  Jörg U. Ganzhorn, 
  • Pages: 328-342
  • First Published: 27 June 2016
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The role of leaf toughness on foraging efficiency in Angola black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis palliatus)

Noah T. Dunham,  Alexander L. Lambert, 
  • Pages: 343-354
  • First Published: 27 June 2016
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Testing the equivalence of modern human cranial covariance structure: Implications for bioarchaeological applications

Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel,  Lauren Schroeder, 
  • Pages: 355-366
  • First Published: 30 June 2016

Brief Communication

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Detecting menarcheal status through dental mineralization stages?

Alizé Lacoste Jeanson,  Frédéric Santos,  Jaroslav Bruzek,  Vanessa Urzel, 
  • Pages: 367-373
  • First Published: 17 June 2016

Letter to the Editor

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The fifth element (of Lucy's sacrum): Reply to Machnicki, Lovejoy, and Reno

Scott A. Williams,  Gabrielle A. Russo, 
  • Pages: 374-378
  • First Published: 08 July 2016

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  • First Published: 20 September 2016