| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
World Anthropology |
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World anthropology.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: Methodology -- An Inkless Method of Recording Dermal Ridges -- Critical Remarks on Some Methodological Procedures in the Field of Dermatoglyphics -- A Methodology for Dermatoglyphics -- Fingers and Palms -- SECTION TWO: Nonhuman Primates -- A New Technique for Examining Primate Dermatoglyphics -- Characteristics of Intercore Ridge Count in Rhesus Monkeys -- SECTION THREE: Human Populations -- Sex Differences in Finger-Pattern Frequencies in Different Populations -- Finger Ridge Counts in Samples from Tribal Populations of India with Application of a Three-Factor Theory -- A Quantitative Analysis of the Alignment of Palmar Main Line A in an Indian Population -- Dermatoglyphics in Two Yukpa Groups from the Sierra de Perijá: Chaparro and Parirí -- Dermatoglyphics Among the Toba Indians of Argentina -- Dermatoglyphic Variation in Five Eskimo Groups from Northwestern Alaska -- Recent Anthropological Data on the Ammassalimiut Eskimo of East Greenland: Comparative Studies -- Hungarian Dermatoglyphics and Their Relation to the Origin of the Hungarian People -- Dermatoglyphic Differentiation of the Population of the U.S.S.R. -- The Dermatoglyphics of the Peoples of New Guinea: A Review -- Some Characteristics of Fingerprints and Palmprints in the Rembarranga Tribe in the Northern Territory, Australia -- SECTION FOUR: Genetics -- A Genetic Model for the Inheritance of a Dermatoglyphic Trait: Absence of the Palmar c-Triradius -- A Curve-Fitting Method for Estimating the Number of Loci in Total Finger Ridge Count and Its Implications for the Number of Loci Involved in Skin Color -- A Comparison of Dermatoglyphic and Genetic Similarity Indices in Rhesus Monkeys -- SECTION FIVE: Medicine -- Dermatoglyphics and Creases in Their Relationship to Clinical Syndromes: A Diagnostic Criterion? -- Dermatoglyphics in Dyscephaly Saethre-Chotzen (Acrocephalosyndactyly Type III, Chotzen Syndrome) -- Dermatoglyphics in Cerebral Gigantism -- Dermatoglyphics in Microcephaly and Hydrocephaly -- Palmar Dermatoglyphics in Celiac Sprue -- Dermatoglyphic Patterns in Endemic Cretinism -- Factors Influencing Digital Dermatoglyphics in Congenital Rubella -- Dermatoglyphic Laterality, Sex-Chromosome Mosaicism, and Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy -- Main Line Index and Transversality in Trisomy 21 -- Tibial-Arch Patterns on the Hallucal Area of Nonmongol Mentally Retarded -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1978 |
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Papers prepared for a pre-congress conference of the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Chicago, 1973 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Dermatoglyphics -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Dermatoglyphics
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mavalwala, Jamshed
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International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973)
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| ISBN |
9783110800005 |
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3110800004 |
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9027975906 |
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9789027975904 |
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0202900754 |
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9780202900759 |
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9789027975805 |
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9027975809 |
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