Growth patterns in the modern human skeleton

American Journal of Physical Anthropology
L T Humphrey

Abstract

This study investigates cross sectional growth patterns in the human skeleton using a recent skeletal sample of known age and sex. Measurements were selected to reflect different functional regions of the cranium, mandible and post cranial skeleton, and growth is evaluated using a single phase Gompertz curve. Different parts of the skeleton vary in the proportion of adult size attained at birth and in their subsequent rate of attainment of adult size. The paper introduces a method for the objective and quantitative comparison of the growth of different samples, and is used in this instance to analyze sexual differences in the growth of the post cranial skeleton. The development of sexual dimorphism is evaluated in terms of differences in the rate and duration of male and female growth. Adult sexual dimorphism is generally lower in early growing variables than in later-growing variables. There is considerable diversity in the ontogenetic basis of sexual dimorphism in the human skeleton demonstrating that the development of sexual dimorphism within a species should not be regarded as a uniform phenomenon.

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