Long bone articular and diaphyseal structure in Old World monkeys and apes. II: Estimation of body mass

CB Ruff - American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… proximal tibial articular ML breadth is apparently “locomotor blind” regarding body mass
estimation … The techniques are illustrated by estimating the body masses of four fossil anthropoid …

Articular and diaphyseal remodeling of the proximal femur with changes in body mass in adults

CB Ruff, WW Scott, AYC Liu - American journal of physical …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
… Thus, if, as we propose, articular size does not respond to changes in adult body weight,
the heavier older adults in our sample will be associated with smaller femoral heads relative to …

Of mice, men and elephants: the relation between articular cartilage thickness and body mass

J Malda, JC de Grauw, KEM Benders, MJL Kik… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… the dimensions of bones, cannot scale isometrically with increasing body mass and hence
… of the articular cartilage could only be sustained in mammals with a low body mass; and (3) …

Lower limb articular scaling and body mass estimation in Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins

CB Ruff, ML Burgess, N Squyres, JA Junno… - Journal of Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
… empirical observations support a strong association between body mass and articular and
diaphyseal cross-sectional dimensions of weight-bearing long bones (Selker and Carter, 1989…

Articular scaling and body mass estimation in platyrrhines and catarrhines: Modern variation and application to fossil anthropoids

JMG Perry, SB Cooke, JAR Connour… - Journal of Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
… , four long bone articular breadths have been selected for estimating primate body mass, …
, and represent major dimensions of the articular surfaces (superoinferior in the femoral and …

Bilateral variation in limb articular surface dimensions

JH Plochocki - American Journal of Human Biology: The Official …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… the plasticity of limb articular dimension through the use of … differential mechanical loading
during bone growth related to … that is typically exhibited in bone lengths. Patterns of bilateral …

Articular area responses to mechanical loading: effects of exercise, age, and skeletal location

DE Lieberman, MJ Devlin… - American Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… of body mass and joint function based on articular surface areas… bones is wellestablished,
the effect of loading on the subchondral articular surface area of epiphyses (hereafter, articular

Body mass estimates in extinct mammals from limb bone dimensions: the case of North American hyaenodontids

N Egi - Palaeontology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
articular dimensions for non-human anthropoids. In this study, body mass estimation equations
are derived from long bone … cross-sectional geometries, articular sizes, and bone lengths. …

Body size, body shape, and long bone strength in modern humans

CB Ruff - Journal of human evolution, 2000 - Elsevier
bone diaphyses with different ‘‘size’’ measures (bone length, body mass, and the product of
bone length and body mass… Skeletal bi-iliac breadth was adjusted for articular and cutaneous…

Locomotion in terrestrial mammals: the influence of body mass, limb length and bone proportions on speed

PER Christiansen - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… Maximum articular lengths of the major limb bones of the included 76 species (humerus, …
linear distance from the centre of rotation at the articular surface for the humerus to the tip of the …