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Relationship of lower limb height to sitting height in black populations of Africa and the United States
Author(s) -
Meredith Howard V.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330510108
Subject(s) - sitting , demography , generalization , lower limb , white (mutation) , black male , geography , medicine , mathematics , sociology , biology , gender studies , surgery , genetics , mathematical analysis , pathology , gene
This article examines a recently reported generalization. Materials from more than a score of investigations are drawn upon. These materials show there is not a substantial research base for the claim that interbreeding in the United States between black people of African ancestry and white people of European ancestry has resulted in increased lower limb height relative to sitting height.