Many dramatic changes in morphology within the genus Homo have occurred over the past
2 million years or more, including large increases in absolute brain size and decreases in …

Hominids—both living and past—exhibit considerable variation in body size and shape. Both
theoretical considerations and empirical observations indicate that some of this variation …

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 …

Variation in long bone cross‐sectional geometry can be given a more precise functional
interpretation using engineering beam theory. However, difficulties in measurement technique …

Biomechanics theory provides new ways to reconstruct behavior in past populations. Application
of biomechanical beam models to long bone diaphyses has proven to be a particularly …

Humans demonstrate species-wide bilateral asymmetry in long bone dimensions. Previous
studies have documented greater right-biases in upper limb bone dimensions—especially in …

An interactive computer program was developed to derive femoral neck geometry from raw
bone mineral image data for an estimate of hip strength using single plane engineering …

The analysis of humeral asymmetry in Recent human skeletal samples and an extant tennis‐player
sample documents minimal asymmetry in bone length, little asymmetry in distal …

Proximal femoral dimensions were measured from radiographs of 80 living subjects whose
current body weight and body weight at initial skeletal maturity (18 years) could be …

… been described in detail elsewhere (Ruff, 1995). The Pecos … loadings of the limbs with
economic industrialization (Ruff … confirm the general model employed in an earlier study (Ruff …