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Physical Fitness of Children and Adolescents in the United States: Status and Secular Change
In: Pediatric Fitness; Medicine and Sport Science, S. 67-90
VI. Growth, Development, and Physique: Study of Twins, Study in Human Development. Produced and directed by H. D. Behrens
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 513-513
ISSN: 1548-1433
Physical: Child Growth. WILTON MARION KROGMAN
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 1148-1149
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 74, Heft 4, S. 1039-1039
ISSN: 1548-1433
Physical Anthropology: Physical Growth and Body Composition: Papers from the Kyoto Symposium on Anthropological Aspects of Human Growth. JOSEF BROŽK
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 74, Heft 1-2, S. 141-141
ISSN: 1548-1433
Physical Anthropology: Human Biology: A Guide to Field Methods. J. S. WEINER and J. A. LOURIE, comp. Foreword by E. B. Worthington
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 73, Heft 2, S. 441-442
ISSN: 1548-1433
Inbreeding Avoidance in an Isolated Indigenous Zapotec Community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Southern Mexico
In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Band 77, Heft 3, S. 306-316
ISSN: 1534-6617
ALLOSTATIC LOAD AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IN POLISH ADULT MEN
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 155-167
ISSN: 1469-7599
SummaryThis study considers the relationship between a cumulative index of biological dysregulation (allostatic load) and several dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES) and lifestyle in adult Polish males. The extent to which lifestyle variables can explain SES variation in allostatic load was also evaluated. Participants were 3887 occupationally active men aged 25–60 years living in cities and villages in the Silesia region of Poland. The allostatic load indicator included eleven markers: % fat (adverse nutritional intake), systolic and diastolic blood pressures (cardiovascular activity), FEV1 (lung function), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (inflammatory processes), glucose and total cholesterol (cardiovascular disease risk), total plasma protein (stress-haemoconcentration), bilirubin, creatinine clearance and alkaline phosphatase activity (hepatic and renal functions). A higher level of completed education, being married and residing in an urban area were associated with lower physiological dysregulation. The association between indicators of SES and allostatic load was not eliminated or attenuated when unhealthy lifestyle variables were included in the model. Smoking status and alcohol consumption played minimal roles in explaining the association between SES and allostatic load; physical activity, however, had a generally protective effect on allostatic load.
Human Growth: Selected Aspects of Current Research on Well-Nourished Children
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 187-219
ISSN: 1545-4290
INFLUENCE OF HEIGHT ON ATTAINED LEVEL OF EDUCATION IN MALES AT 19 YEARS OF AGE
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 575-582
ISSN: 1469-7599
SummaryIn this study it is hypothesized that taller individuals are more likely to move up the scale of educational attainment compared with shorter individuals from the same social background. Three national cohorts of 19-year-old males were considered: 29,464 born in 1967 and surveyed in 1986, 31,062 born in 1976 and surveyed in 1995, and 30,851 born in 1982 and surveyed in 2001. Four social variables were used to describe the social background of each conscript in the three surveys: degree of urbanization, family size, and parental and maternal educational status. The educational status of each conscript was classified into two groups: (1) those who were secondary school students or graduates, or who had entered college, and (2) those who had completed their education at the primary school level or who had gone to a basic trade school. Multiple binomial logistic regressions were used to estimate the relative risk of achieving higher educational status by 19-year-old males relative to height and the four social factors. Consistently across the three cohorts the odd ratios (ORs) indicate that height exerts an independent and significant effect on the attained level of education at the age of 19 years in males (1986: OR=1·24, p<0·001; 1995: OR=1·24, p<0·001; 2001: OR=1·20, p<0·001). Two possible, not mutually exclusive, selective mechanisms are postulated and discussed: 'passive' and 'active' action.
Opportunity for Natural Selection and Gene Flow in an Isolated Zapotec-Speaking Community in Southern Mexico in the Throes of a Secular Increase in Size
In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 295-305
ISSN: 1534-6617
Secular Change in Heights of Rural Adults in West-Central Poland between 1986 and 2016: The Transition from Pre- to Post- Communism
In: EHB-D-23-00442
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Physical Activity and Physical Self‐Concept in Adolescence: A Comparison of Girls at the Extremes of the Biological Maturation Continuum
In: Journal of research on adolescence, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 746-757
ISSN: 1532-7795
This study examined differences in physical activity and physical self‐concept between the least and most biologically mature female adolescents within chronological age and academic year groups. A total of 252 British female adolescents (M age = 12.9 years; SD = .7) in Years 7–9 completed self‐report measures to assess physical activity and physical self‐concept. Percentage of predicted adult (mature) stature served as the index of biological maturation. Univariate analyses of covariance, controlling for decimal age, revealed that the least mature girls generally held higher perceptions of physical self‐concept but were no more, or less, active than the most mature girls. A subsequent meta‐analysis suggested, however, that across age and year groups the least mature girls were more active than the most mature girls.
Assortative mating for phenotypic characteristics in a Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 273-280
ISSN: 1469-7599
SummaryAssortative mating for age and several anthropometric characteristics is considered in a sample of 68–70 husband-wife pairs from a rural Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Conditions in the community with a population of approximately 1700 indicate chronic, mild-to-moderate undernutrition as reflected in high infant mortality rates, smaller body size of school children, and delayed biological maturation. Phenotypic assortative mating, as expressed in husband-wife correlations, is significant for age (r = 0·96), stature (r = 0·35) and grip strength (r = 0·29), but is not significant for body weight (r = 0·01), arm circumference (r = 0·07), the estimated midarm muscle circumference (r = 0·003), Quetelet's index (r = 0·02), and the ponderal index (r = 0·11). Controlling for age of husband and wife reduces the correlations for stature (r = 0·24) and grip strength (r = 0·12), but increases those for arm circumference (r = 0·21) and estimated midarm muscle circumference (r = 0·16). Grouping the spouses into younger (under 30 years of age) and older (30 years and older) results in significant spouse correlations for age, stature, arm circumference and estimated midarm muscle circumference in the younger group and for only age and fatness in the older group.