Dermatoglyphics : An International Perspective /
Dermatoglyphics : An International Perspective /
ed. by Jamshed Mavalwala.
- Reprint 2011
- 1 online resource (383 p.) : 36 plates and 3 maps.
- World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series .
I-VI -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789027975805 9783110800005
10.1515/9783110800005 doi
Dermatoglyphics--Congresses.
Dermatoglyphics--Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
GN192
573/.677
I-VI -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789027975805 9783110800005
10.1515/9783110800005 doi
Dermatoglyphics--Congresses.
Dermatoglyphics--Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
GN192
573/.677