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Fetal age: Methods of estimation and effects of pathology by Sherwood, Richard J., Meindl, R.S., Robinson, H.B., May, R.L.

“…Accurate identification of fetal age is important in a wide variety of circumstances. Seventeen anthropometric and radiographic measurements were taken on…”
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Palaeoanthropology Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? by Lovejoy, C. Owen, Heiple, Kingsbury G, Meindl, Richard S

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Test of the multifactorial aging method using skeletons with known ages-at-death from the Grant Collection by Bedford, M E, Russell, K F, Lovejoy, C O, Meindl, R S, Simpson, S W, Stuart-Macadam, P L

“…The multifactorial aging method has been shown to be a highly reliable method of skeletal aging because it incorporates age information from as many age…”
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Ectocranial suture closure: a revised method for the determination of skeletal age at death based on the lateral-anterior sutures by Meindl, R S, Lovejoy, C O

“…A new method for estimation of age-at-death based on the degree of suture closure is presented. The method employs simple ectocranial scoring of specific sites…”
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Chronological metamorphosis of the auricular surface of the ilium: a new method for the determination of adult skeletal age at death by Lovejoy, C O, Meindl, R S, Pryzbeck, T R, Mensforth, R P

“…A new method for the determination of adult skeletal age at death based upon chronological changes in the auricular surface of the ilium is presented. Formal…”
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Response of bone and enamel formation to nutritional supplementation and morbidity among malnourished Guatemalan children by May, R L, Goodman, A H, Meindl, R S

“…The effects of changes in nutritional and health status upon bone and enamel development are examined in a sample of 63 rural Guatemalan children (24 females,…”
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Multifactorial determination of skeletal age at death: a method and blind tests of its accuracy by Lovejoy, C O, Meindl, R S, Mensforth, R P, Barton, T J

“…Traditional methods of estimating skeletal age at death have relied solely on the pubic symphyseal face or on this indicator combined with others in…”
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Secular Trends in Mortality in the Connecticut Valley, 1700-1850 by Meindl, R. S., Swedlund, A. C.

“…Mortality levels for historical communities of the middle Connecticut Valley in western Massachusetts are reported. The rapidly growing settlements experienced…”
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Skeletal Age at Death: Accuracy of Determination and Implications for Human Demography by Meindl, Richard S., Lovejoy, C. Owen, Mensforth, Robert P.

“…A method of estimating adult age at death in the skeleton using sedation and multifactorial age determination was tested using subsamples of the Hamann-Todd…”
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A revised method of age determination using the os pubis, with a review and tests of accuracy of other current methods of pubic symphyseal aging by Meindl, R S, Lovejoy, C O, Mensforth, R P, Walker, R A

“…All current standardized methods of age determination using the os pubis were tested by blind assessment of a skeletal sample with documented ages (from the…”
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Family Patterns in Longevity and Longevity Patterns of the Family by Swedlund, Alan C., Swedlund, Allen C., Meindl, Richard S., Nydon, Judith, Gradie, Margaret I.

“…In this paper we investigate two distinct but related questions: The longevity of individuals and the longevity of families. Following a brief review of the…”
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Accuracy and direction of error in the sexing of the skeleton: implications for paleodemography by Meindl, R S, Lovejoy, C O, Mensforth, R P, Don Carlos, L

“…Determinations of sex by subjective assessment of the skulls from a skeletal series of known sex were compared to fully independent assessments based on pelves…”
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Hypothesis: a selective advantage for cystic fibrosis heterozygotes by Meindl, R S

“…European populations have both a particularly long history of pulmonary tuberculosis and extremely high frequencies of cystic fibrosis (CF). While carriers of…”
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Pattern and Process of Growth of the Abnormal Human Fetus by SHERWOOD, RICHARD J., ROBINSON, HAYNES B., MEINDL, RICHARD S., MAY, RICHARD L.

“…Identifying patterns of fetal growth alteration benefits both the clinician and the researcher. Twenty-four measurements in three variable sets (anthropometrie…”
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Reliability of age at death in the Hamann-Todd collection: validity of subselection procedures used in blind tests of the summary age technique by Meindl, R S, Russell, K F, Lovejoy, C O

“…The blind test procedures used by Lovejoy et al., (Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 68:1-14, 1985a) have been criticized because they used the Hamann-Todd collection as…”
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Sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis was similar to that of modern humans by Reno, Philip L., Meindl, Richard S., McCollum, Melanie A., Lovejoy, C. Owen

“…The substantial fossil record for Australopithecus afarensis includes both an adult partial skeleton [Afar Locality (A.L.) 288-1, “Lucy”] and a large…”
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Further evidence on relative dental maturation and somatic developmental rate in hominoids by Simpson, S W, Lovejoy, C O, Meindl, R S

“…New data on hominoid dental development are presented. Individual bivariate pairings of all mandibular teeth were made for African apes and humans. Data were…”
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Paleodemography of the Libben Site, Ottawa County, Ohio by Lovejoy, C. Owen, Meindl, Richard S., Pryzbeck, Thomas R., Barton, Thomas S., Heiple, Kingsbury G., Kotting, David

“…The Libben site, a Late Woodland ossuary and occupation site from the Great Black Swamp of northern Ohio has yielded a well-preserved skeletal sample of 1327…”
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Components of longevity: developmental and genetic responses to differential childhood mortality by Meindl, R S

“…Childhood disease may have far-reaching effects on adult longevity in high-mortality populations. It was earlier reported from demographic analysis of 19th…”
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The Maka femur and its bearing on the antiquity of human walking: Applying contemporary concepts of morphogenesis to the human fossil record by Lovejoy, C. Owen, Meindl, Richard S., Ohman, James C., Heiple, Kingsbury G., White, Tim D.

“…MAK‐VP‐1/1, a proximal femur recovered from the Maka Sands (ca. 3.4 mya) of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and attributed to Australopithecus afarensis, is…”
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