Forensic anthropology occupies an important place and a branch which was earlier a part of physical anthropology, has now not only achieved differentiation, but has emerged as a distinct discipline. It achieves its orientation and subject matter from forensic science. [1-3]. “Forensic science' may be defined as “scientific discipline which is directed to the recognition, identification, individ...

Over a 40-year period, 1940 through the present, human growth research has increased for a minimal to a major part of physical anthropology. Such research, originally conducted at the major American growth centers, has become more diverse and more specialized, extending to National Probability Samplings, nutritional surveys, studies of twins, investigations restricted to the craniofacial comple...

In 1929 and 1934-1935, the physical anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro voyaged in the South Seas on the Mahina-l-Te-Pua and the Zaca, measuring mixed-race islanders, including the descendants of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island. His research in Polynesian hybridity reflects the growing cultural and scientific investment of the United States in the Pacific during this period. Shapiro's ocean...

The article analyzes Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto's participation in the international debate that involved the field of physical anthropology and discussions on miscegenation in the first decades of the twentieth century. Special focus is on his readings and interpretations of a group of US anthropologists and eugenicists and his controversies with them, including Charles Dav...

Sport anthropometry has developed from the techniques and results of general physical anthropology. Thus, in the beginning, the main questions and methods were also similar to those of general physical anthropology, only the investigated subjects were taken of a different population. Following the initial, mainly descriptive and comparative, phases of data manipulation, the predictive functions...

Criminalistics.........................................................................38 Engineering Sciences...........................................................126 General.................................................................................152 Jurisprudence .......................................................................179 Odontology ...................................

In 1858 William Ripley recalled an important nineteenth century assumption: In our school d&ys most of us were brought up to regard Asia as the mother of European people. We were told that an ideal race of men swarmed forth from the Himalayan highlands, disseminating culture right and left as they spread through the barbarous West. The primitive language, parent of all the varieties of speech--...

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