Meat has exerted a crucial role in human evolution and is an important component of a
healthy and well balanced diet due to its nutritional richness. The present review attempts to …

▪ Abstract Evolutionary trends in human body form provide important context for interpreting
variation among modern populations. Average body mass in living humans is smaller than it …

Two general kinds of theory (one ecological and one social) have been advanced to explain
the fact that primates have larger brains and greater congnitive abilities than other animals …

Many investigators use the reduced major axis (RMA) instead of ordinary least squares
(OLS) to define a line of best fit for a bivariate relationship when the variable represented on …

Temporal trends in postcranial robusticity within the genus Homo are explored by comparing
cross‐sectional diaphyseal and articular properties of the femur, and to a more limited …

Some of the outstanding cognitive capabilities of humans are commonly attributed to a
disproportionate enlargement of the human frontal lobe during evolution. This claim is based …

Techniques that are currently available for estimating stature and body mass from European
skeletal remains are all subject to various limitations. Here, we develop new prediction …

To identify behaviorally significant differences in bone structure it is first necessary to control
for the effects of body size and body shape. Here the scaling of cross-sectional geometric …

In comparative studies of sexual size dimorphism (SSD), the methods used to quantify
dimorphism are controversial. SSD is commonly expressed as a ratio between species …

In the past, body mass was reconstructed from hominin skeletal remains using both
“mechanical” methods which rely on the support of body mass by weight-bearing skeletal …